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

在过去的十年里，希腊已经成为与劳工和庇护相关的广泛移民的目的地。这使希腊成为欧盟事实上的关键前沿，并极大地改变了希腊围绕庇护和公民身份的观念和做法。研究生希思·卡伯特在唐纳德·L·布伦内斯博士的指导下，将在雅典一个支持庇护的非政府组织进行人种学研究，以考察希腊倡导律师和寻求庇护者是如何共同产生庇护和公民身份形成的法律类别的。这项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体系是如何重叠的，并通过倡导过程重新构成的。研究人员将采用多种人种学研究方法，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图。通过对这一特定非政府组织庇护宣传的日常政治进行详细说明，该项目将阐明非政府组织如何执行和重塑庇护政策。此外，这项工作将作为对移民和庇护政策编制中经常采用的官方数据的重要质量补充。

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.