Doctoral Dissertation Research: Death and Migration: Negotiating the Secular and Islam in Greece

博士生克里斯蒂娜·帕利沃斯(耶鲁大学)将在M.Kamari Clarke博士的指导下，从事关于世俗主义、国家和移民的研究。随着具有特定宗教取向的移民进入世俗和半世俗民主国家，他们对现代国家治理的理论和实践都构成了意想不到的挑战，法国的头巾辩论就证明了这一点。帕利沃斯将把她的研究重点放在移民穆斯林的埋葬问题上，这些穆斯林在途经希腊前往欧洲不同目的地的途中死亡。在过去十年中，沿希腊东部边界的埃夫罗斯河和爱琴海已成为大约90%从中东、非洲、南亚和中亚前往欧洲的移民的主要入境点；他们中的许多人是穆斯林。随着穿越这些水域的人数增加，沿途死亡的人数也在增加，这使得希腊成为探索这些问题的绝佳地点。帕利沃斯将对希腊三个地点的穆斯林移民进行为期18个月的人种学研究：雅典、莱斯沃斯和亚历山大。她将收集有关穆斯林死者在希腊受到的不同待遇的数据，包括将遗体送回原籍国，将遗体从希腊迁至色雷斯(唯一有穆斯林墓地的希腊遗址)，以及在当地将身份不明的遗骸埋葬在没有标记的坟墓中。研究方法将包括参与者观察、半结构访谈、埋葬案例研究、遣返案例研究和档案研究。这项研究很重要，因为它将有助于社会科学理解当前的经济危机和随之而来的移民如何共同改变作为现代国家主体的含义。她的研究还将填补有关身体在国内和跨国界流通的已知空白，并为当代希腊的人种学做出贡献。支持这项研究也支持研究生的教育。

Doctoral student Christina Palivos (Yale University), with the guidance of Dr. M. Kamari Clarke, will undertake research on secularism, the state, and migration. As migrants with particular religious orientations move into secular and semi-secular democracies, they pose unanticipated challenges for both the theory and practice of modern state governance, as evidenced by the head scarf debate in France. Palivos will focus her research on the problems of burial of migrant Muslims who die while moving through Greece on their way to various destinations in Europe. In the past decade, the Evros River and the Aegean Sea along the eastern borders of Greece have become the main points of entry for approximately 90 per cent of migrants en route to Europe from the Middle East, Africa, South Asia, and Central Asia; many of them are Muslim. As the number of people crossing these bodies of water has grown, so has the number who die along the way, making Greece an excellent site to explore these issues. Palivos will undertake eighteen months of ethnographic research amongst Muslim immigrants in three Greek locations: Athens, Lesvos, and Alexandroupolis. She will gather data on the different treatments that Muslim dead receive in Greece, including repatriation of remains to the country of origin, relocation of remains from to Thrace (the only Greek site with Muslim cemetaries), and local burial of unidentified remains in unmarked graves. Research methods will include participant observation, semi-structured interviews, burial case studies, repatriation case studies, and archival research. This research is important because it will contribute to social scientific understanding of how the current economic crisis and attendant migration are together changing what it means to be a modern state subject. Her research also will fill gaps in what is known about the circulation of dead bodies within and across national borders and contribute to the ethnography of contemporary Greece. Supporting this research also supports the education of a graduate student.