2013
DOI: 10.1111/amet.12032
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The social aesthetics of eligibility: NGO aid and indeterminacy in the Greek asylum process

Abstract: On the porous EU border of Greece, where both fiscal and migration management are said to be in a state of crisis, NGOs figure crucially in the provision of legal and social aid to asylum applicants. I explore the dialogical engagements underpinning the determination of client eligibility at one such NGO in Athens. As workers and aid candidates coproduce “pictures” of lives eligible for protection, profound uncertainties and indeterminacies emerge. I argue that this indeterminacy gives testament to an often ov… Show more

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“…The contested notion of 'equality' with disaffected others here takes a different format than cross-Mediterranean relatedness (Ben-Yehoyada 2014). These visions of egalitarian relatedness stand in stark contrast to the biopolitics (Rozakou 2012) and intersubjective gaps (Cabot 2013) that humanitarian outreach NGOs and other organisations have been shown to instil. The visions of research participants here establish a key solidarity bridge that operates as a provisional link between different, even contradictory, subjective and social worlds: violent experiences of flight, transit and arrival; aspects of exclusion in terms of cultural 'difference'; and the marginalised positions of those seeking to receive and support refugees in a fraught European border zone.…”
Section: E G a L I T A R I A N T E N S I O N S : E T H N O G R A P H mentioning
confidence: 94%
“…The contested notion of 'equality' with disaffected others here takes a different format than cross-Mediterranean relatedness (Ben-Yehoyada 2014). These visions of egalitarian relatedness stand in stark contrast to the biopolitics (Rozakou 2012) and intersubjective gaps (Cabot 2013) that humanitarian outreach NGOs and other organisations have been shown to instil. The visions of research participants here establish a key solidarity bridge that operates as a provisional link between different, even contradictory, subjective and social worlds: violent experiences of flight, transit and arrival; aspects of exclusion in terms of cultural 'difference'; and the marginalised positions of those seeking to receive and support refugees in a fraught European border zone.…”
Section: E G a L I T A R I A N T E N S I O N S : E T H N O G R A P H mentioning
confidence: 94%
“…A pressuposição do trauma como critério de elegibilidade (Fassin, 2001;Fassin, Rechtman, 2009;Cabot, 2013) para o fornecimento de auxílio psicoterapêutico se mostrava, sob a perspectiva oficial dos fornecedores de auxílio, como tentativa de apreensão dos sofrimentos passados -os eventos traumáticos que motivaram o deslocamento forçado. A experiência do PSM, entretanto, parece demonstrar que os refugiados não remontam ao passado quando questionados sobre suas dificuldades -e isso pode ser atestado inclusive nas falas dos agentes do serviço de saúde mental, que reconhecem língua e emprego como as principais dificuldades desses sujeitos, e passaram a direcionar os grupos terapêuticos para a discussão desses temas (fosse diferente, os grupos de troca seriam ainda menos frequentados?…”
Section: Os Grupos Terapêuticos: a Busca Pelo Sofrimento Passadounclassified
“…Por fim, também parece ser possível apontar para a coprodução do ambiente psicoterapêutico e dos critérios de elegibilidade para adentrá-los, como também o fazem Cabot (2013), Zelaya (2016) e Pussetti (2017): o grupo de troca não trata do trauma passado pois não é o que o sujeito do refúgio traz para trocar. Talvez seja possível concordar com Zelaya (2016) sobre a existência de um "campo de interlocução em transformação", sugerindo a construção de novos sentidos para a experiência do refúgio, afastados da imagem do refugiado enquanto vítima (Zelaya, 2016, p. 419) -ou, ao menos, enquanto vítima de seu passado e de sua experiência de deslocamento forçado.…”
Section: Os Grupos Terapêuticos: a Busca Pelo Sofrimento Passadounclassified
“…Participants in the voluntary association I studied protested against it and the commercialisation of the Olympic Games. 9 Heath Cabot records a different picture in pro-bono legal aid to asylum seekers; one much closer to the professionalisation of volunteerism (Cabot 2013). I have the impression that the professional character of legal aid strongly shapes the site she studies and the production of volunteerism.…”
Section: Approaching Refugeesmentioning
confidence: 99%