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Identifier |
000446087 |
Title |
Το ταξινομητικό σύστημα της "Ευαλωτότητας" στη Λέσβο : πτυχιές του αξιολογητικού υποκειμένου |
Alternative Title |
The taxonomic system of vulnerability in Lesvos : aspects of the evaluating subject |
Author
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Αθανασιάδης, Ανέστης
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Reviewer
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Γκούνης Κωνσταντίνος
Σερντεδάκης Νίκος
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Abstract |
This master thesis deals with the relationship between protection provider and protection recipient as it emerges in the context of humanitarian intervention in Lesvos. Specifically, the thesis examines the “vulnerability” assessment mechanism through the experiences of aid workers who implement it, and highlights aspects of their own function. Different mechanisms of mobility management have been implemented at Lesvos island over the years. Since 2016, in the context of increased flows of displaced populations and after the E.U.- Turkey Statement, the hot-spot is the new European paradigm in mobility management. The hot-spot is an assemblage of heterogenous actors and strategies to manage the newcomers, a place where security and protection policies are simultaneously applied. In the hot-spot premises, “vulnerability” is implemented as a component – a technology – of humanitarian government by dividing and sorting the confined population into “vulnerable” –suffering bodies deserving protection – and “non-vulnerable” ones.During field research in Mytilene, in April 2019, open-ended interviews were conducted with field workers employed in different humanitarian organizations. Through thematic discourse analysis, the research attempts to respond to two questions: how does the taxonomic system of “vulnerability” function based on the experience of those who apply it; and how their subjective position is constructed as a position of mediation between asylum seekers’ truth and its inscription – by the form of certification –into the bureaucratic mechanism. As far as the first question is concerned, the thesis argues that the implementation of the “vulnerability” assessment mechanismis structured on the basis of mediation, and is dependent on a complex scheme of referrals. This scheme is shaped by the networking and the bureaucratic interconnection of various humanitarian agencies. In this context, the assessment practices of “vulnerability” are achieved through the objectification of the asylum seekers’ speech and body, on the basis of scientific discourses which decide about a claim’s truth. The analysis shows two emerging subjective positions of the aid workers, which are constructed according to the role of the humanitarian agency that they work for: one taxonomic and one supporting/defending. In responding to the second question, the concept of “disbelief”, which arose as central in the experiences of the participants, is used and aspects of the two subjective positions are further discussed on that basis. The fact that the application of “vulnerability” objectifies asylum seekers’ speech and body, in order to reveal their truth, constitutes a problem of truth or a primary disbelief. The problem of disbelief is multiply produced at the juncture of institutional changes and individual escape strategies of the applicants. It is also emerging as a constitutive element of the “vulnerability” assessment mechanism. Thus, is not just a situation that field workers are called to deal with; it is more an inextricable part of the mechanism, one that professionals in the field both act upon and simultaneously reproduce, by their daily action.
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Language |
Greek |
Subject |
Aid workers |
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Lesvos |
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Migration |
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Vulnerability |
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Εργαζόμενοι |
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Ευαλωτότητα |
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Λέσβος |
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Μετανάστευση |
Issue date |
2021 |
Collection
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School/Department--School of Social Sciences--Department of Sociology--Post-graduate theses
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Type of Work--Post-graduate theses
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Permanent Link |
https://elocus.lib.uoc.gr//dlib/0/a/4/metadata-dlib-1645446000-26237-6388.tkl
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