Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant: Asylum and Advocacy in Athens: An Ethnography of NGO Politics on the Hellenic Frontier

在过去十年中，希腊已成为广泛的劳工和庇护相关移民的目的地。这使得希腊成为欧盟事实上的关键边境，并极大地改变了希腊在庇护和公民身份方面的观念和做法。研究生希思·卡博特（Heath Cabot）将在唐纳德·l·布伦尼斯（Donald L. Brenneis）博士的指导下，在雅典的一个倡导庇护的非政府组织进行人种学研究，研究希腊的辩护律师和寻求庇护者如何共同制定庇护和公民身份形成的法律类别。本研究还探讨了包括希腊国家、联合国和欧盟在内的多个经常相互冲突的法律机构是如何通过倡导过程重叠和重组的。研究人员将采用多种民族志研究方法，包括观察非政府组织的官僚程序，收集寻求庇护者的生活史，以及绘制寻求庇护者的社区和社会网络。通过详细描述这个特定非政府组织的日常政治庇护倡导，该项目将揭示非政府组织如何实施和重新制定庇护政策。此外，这项工作将作为在制定移民和庇护政策时经常使用的官方数据的重要质的补充。

Over the last ten years, Greece has become a destination for widespread labor and asylum related immigrations. This has made Greece a crucial de facto frontier of the European Union and has dramatically transformed Greek conceptions and practices around asylum and citizenship. Graduate student Heath Cabot, supervised by Dr. Donald L. Brenneis, will undertake ethnographic research at an asylum-advocacy NGO in Athens, to examine how Greek advocacy lawyers and asylum seekers co-produce the legal categories through which asylum and citizenship take shape. This research also explores how multiple and frequently conflicting legal repertoires, including the Greek State, the UN, and the EU, overlap and are reconstituted through the advocacy process. The researcher will employ multiple ethnographic research methods, including the observation of NGO bureaucratic procedures, the collection of life histories from asylum seekers, and the mapping of asylum seekers' communities and social networks. By providing a detailed account of the everyday politics of asylum advocacy at this particular NGO, this project will shed light on how NGOs implement and refigure asylum policy. Additionally, this work will serve as an important qualitative complement to the official data most often enlisted in the construction of immigration and asylum policy.