‘Money of<i>kurbet</i>is money of blood’: the making of a ‘hero’ of migration at the Greek-Albanian border

Papailias, Penelope

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“…In the 'modern' form of kurbet, the sweat is the product of the labouring Albanian body, working on farms or construction sites in Greece and Italy under the hot sun, the blood shed as a result of brutalising by police and border guards (Papailias, 2003). There is, however, a danger of writing women completely out of the early years of Albanian migration.…”

Section: Albanian Migration As a Gendered Processmentioning

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A population on the move: migration and gender relations in Albania

King

Vullnetari

2012

Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society

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ABSTRACT. Under the harshest communist regime in Europe, emigration from Albania was impossible, and internal migration was tightly controlled. After 1990, everything changed. Twenty years later 1.4 million Albanians, equivalent to half of Albania's resident population, live abroad; internal migration has also taken place on a massive scale. This paper describes these large-scale migrations within the broader setting of 'post-Wall' European mobility, and relates them to the changing context of gender relations in Albania.

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Section: Albanian Migration As a Gendered Processmentioning

confidence: 99%

A population on the move: migration and gender relations in Albania

King

Vullnetari

2012

Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society

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“…Greece's initial, albeit short-lasting, reception of Albanians was warm, driven by curiosity of exploring cultural connections of Balkan brotherhood after forty years of isolation (Papailias, 2003). Soon the newly arrived neighbours became the embodiment of national threat, backwardness and criminal behaviour within the Greek media circulating terror stories on 'waves of infection crossing the Greek frontiers' (Seremetakis, 1996: 489;Kapllani and Mai, 2005).…”

Section: Contextualising the Albanian Community In Greecementioning

confidence: 99%

“…Practices of kurbet are widespread throughout Albanian history excluding the ' artificial interlude' of Hohxa's hard-line, isolationist regime (King, 2005: 135). In the aftermath of iron curtain dismantling, marking the restoration of 'traditional' gendered divisions of labour within Albanian society (Papailias, 2003(Papailias, : 1064, massive numbers of Albanians, predominately males, migrated to the neighbouring countries of Italy and Greece (King et al, 1998) (Fig. 1).…”

Section: Contextualising the Albanian Community In Greecementioning

confidence: 99%

“…In Albanian folklore and memory, the ideology of the Turkish derived kurbet ('travel-for-work') brings to mind stories of hardships and sufferings of migration both for the migrant and the family left behind (Papailias, 2003(Papailias, : 1064Mai and Schwandner-Sievers, 2003). To become a kurbetlli (emigrant) is not merely a matter of economics; over the centuries the act of being ' absent' to support the ones back home acquired moral values and connotations of pride and fearlessness for it involved taking risks and making sacrifices (Barjaba and King 2005).…”

Section: Contextualising the Albanian Community In Greecementioning

confidence: 99%

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Constructing Identity and Heritage at the Crossroads: Albanian Families’ Cross-Border Connections and Homemaking Projects in Athens

Vomvyla

2013

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Drawing from the author’s ethnographic/participatory work with Albanian families in Athens, this paper tells the story of two families constructing identity and heritage in Greece and Albania. The processes involved in the families’ literal and metaphorical connections with the ‘old country’, manifested in cross-border links, everyday routines and material cultures, are integral to their homebuilding projects in their new locale. Given families’ multiple-place-allegiance and disenfranchised status in a Greek context, theories on transnationalism and history and heritage from below are utilised in order to consider identity and heritage formation in the course of everyday routines. It is argued that the experience of building lives in more than two worlds results in the emergence of plurilocal identities, challenging spatially bounded notions of heritage.

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“…Papailias 2003;Christopoulos 2006;Cabot 2014). Successive Greek governments (socialist and conservative) succumbed to the domestic demands of employees and dealt with immigrants as cheap labour regulated by the needs of the parallel economy and the black labour market (Cholezas and Tsakloglou 2009;Triandafyllidou and Ambrosini 2011).…”

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Migration, crisis, liberalism: the cultural and racial politics of Islamophobia and “radical alterity” in modern Greece

Kirtsoglou

Tsimouris

2018

Ethnic and Racial Studies

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This paper attempts a critical and ethnographically informed reading of the complex assemblage of linkages between migration, racialization and liberal values in modern Greece as a symptomatic case of European attitudes to migration. In line with recent scholarship on racialization and Islamophobia, we discuss novel forms of racism, that support the construction of hierarchies and geographies of entitlement, going beyond notions of biological difference. Processes of inclusion and exclusion, we argue, rest on a meshwork of seemingly disparate identification markers that form the basis of universalist, hegemonic visions of citizenship. Migrants are ultimately expected by considerable sections of the Greek public to demonstrate their acceptance of an array of values regarded as "European", and to manifest their support to (neo)liberal regimes of subjectification. We conclude by arguing that racialization can be traced back to an imagined "orient", and just as well, to contemporary cultural and political imperialist projects.

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‘Money ofkurbetis money of blood’: the making of a ‘hero’ of migration at the Greek-Albanian border

Cited by 37 publications

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A population on the move: migration and gender relations in Albania

A population on the move: migration and gender relations in Albania

Constructing Identity and Heritage at the Crossroads: Albanian Families’ Cross-Border Connections and Homemaking Projects in Athens

Migration, crisis, liberalism: the cultural and racial politics of Islamophobia and “radical alterity” in modern Greece

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