The biopolitics of hospitality in Greece: Humanitarianism and the management of refugees

Rozakou, Katerina

doi:10.1111/j.1548-1425.2012.01381.x

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“…The human rights thesis seriously questions humanitarianism and charity as being unable to provide long-term solutions to the structural problems of poverty and hunger, creating conditions of dependency, eradicating human advocacy and reproducing unethical conditions. Such 'politics of compassion' are not only founded on social inequalities, hierarchies and exclusions but they also dangerously reproduce them (Rozakou 2012). Philanthropy becomes a powerful rhetoric of social heroism and hypocrisy, and unselfish giving is criticized as being ultimately impossible (Bakalaki 2008).…”

Section: Discussion: Local Solutions To Global Problemsmentioning

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“…Rozakou (2012) discussed the biopolitics of hospitality and the implications of humanitarianism and the management of refugees in Greece. Unconditional offer and help create the discourse of hospitality as a politics of managing alterity.…”

Section: Hospitality Practices: Treating the 'Other'mentioning

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“…Apart from the accumulation of detailed, first-hand, ethnographic data on the topic, the article also offers theoretical and epistemological contributions to knowledge. Building upon an emerging body of recent work that avoids stereotypical analyses of hospitality (Papataxiarchis 2006;Rozakou 2012), this article attempts to link the notion of hospitality with the turbulent social situation in Greece to produce critical and political understandings of the topic that escape older apolitical readings.…”

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Politicizing hospitality: The emergency food assistance landscape in Thessaloniki

Kravva

2014

Hospitality &Amp; Society

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The ethnographic focus of this article is on municipal strategies for the 'immediate management of poverty' (gia tin amesi antimetopisi tis ftohias) in the city of Thessaloniki, in northern Greece. These involve several food assistance practices: two daily soup kitchens, two social markets and a food bank. Diefthinsi Koinonikis Politikis/The Department of Social Policy also called Pronoia/Welfare sustains a dormitory for homeless people, clothing banks and provides health services to poor, unemployed people, who have no health insurance (aporoi, anergoi, anasfalistoi). Although municipal policies aim to comfort poverty, hunger and deprivation, it is argued that there is a failure in meeting the basic prerequisites of hospitality and fair treatment as claimed. The landscape of food assistance in the city is characterized by tensions and contradictions: internal divisions, antagonistic discourses and power relations seem to be present at all stages. All of the above create a complicated picture of food assistantship and provision, and it remains questionable whether the Municipality's initiatives provide long-term solutions to the growing problems of poverty and hunger. The main argument supported is the overall disempowerment of food assistance experience, which inevitably leads to an inability to provide comfort and to 'host' as initially aimed. The ethnographic case presented becomes the starting point for the analysis of the ethics of food production and consumption and the right to food, a deeply politicized issue and a basic human right, according to international conventions. Consequently, issues of power, exclusion and inequality keywords charity urban poverty emergency food assistance welfare policies moral spaces ethics 250 are posed and problematized. Overall, the article adds to the documentation and the discussion of emergency food assistance in Greece.

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Kravva

2014

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“…In this sense, the profile of the “ideal refugee” (Fiddian‐Qasmiyeh, ) is expected by humanitarian agencies or self‐constructed (Bouris, ) by refugees themselves in the effort to fit the eligibility criteria that allow for access to the assistance regime. Through the enduring hospitality discourse, Syrian refugees are therefore doomed to the reified condition of ideally temporary guests as long as they are willing to comply with the ethical code which, contextually, makes them “proper guests” (Rozakou, : 574). In this regard, such guests develop a sense of conditionality toward welfare provision and social protection.…”

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Refugee Hospitality in Lebanon and Turkey. On Making ‘The Other’

Carpi

Şenoğuz

2018

International Migration

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This paper examines the hospitality provided to Syrian refugees during the refugee crisis spanning from 2011 to 2016 in the border areas of Gaziantep (southeastern Turkey) and the Akkar region (northern Lebanon). Hospitality, apart from a cultural value and societal response to the protracted refugee influx, is a discursive strategy of socio‐spatial control used by humanitarian agencies, local and national authorities. This paper, first, argues against hospitality as an assessment to ethically compare host countries (i.e. more welcoming versus less welcoming states). Second, drawing on Walters’ notion of “humanitarian border”, it shows how the governmental, humanitarian, and everyday workings of hospitality exercise an assertive politics of sovereignty over the social encounter between locals and refugees. We examine the state‐centered hospitality in the Turkish case and a humanitarian‐promoted hospitality in the Lebanese case. We also show how the hospitality discourse shapes the spaces that refugees, citizens, and earlier migrants partake in.

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“…Authors have explored migrants' protest movements and activists supporting them (Atac et. al., 2016;Atac, 2016;Ikizoglu Erenzu, 2016;Stierl, 2016), as well as long-term existing structures of solidarity (Rozakou, 2012;. Holmes & Castañeda (2016) have looked at the representation of the 'crisis', while the emergence of migration and asylum in Europe as a 'hot' topic of research has been criticized (Cabot, 2016; see also Papataxiarchis, 2016).…”

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Rupture and Continuity: Positioning Hungarian Border Policy in the European Union

Kallius¹

2016

Intersections

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1In this article, I locate the efforts of the Hungarian government to close its borders to migrants in the broader context of externalization of European Union asylum policy. I draw on Martina Tazzioli's conceptualization of the production of temporary, divisive migrant multiplicities in border zones in ethnographically presenting the conditions of two protest marches of migrants. I suggest that the relative successes and failures of these marches, one of which resulted in a temporary rupture in Hungary's adherence to EU border policy, relate to the presence or absence of biopolitical border controls and techniques of externalization that stand in parallel with long-term developments of EU border control. In this context, I also question the extent to which an emergence of a collective subject is contingent upon local support, on one hand, and imaginations of the border, on the other. I argue that the analysis of Hungarian state's border control, as well as efforts to counter it, must be situated in the historical development of the EU border policy.

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The biopolitics of hospitality in Greece: Humanitarianism and the management of refugees

Cited by 196 publications

References 34 publications

Politicizing hospitality: The emergency food assistance landscape in Thessaloniki

Politicizing hospitality: The emergency food assistance landscape in Thessaloniki

Refugee Hospitality in Lebanon and Turkey. On Making ‘The Other’

Rupture and Continuity: Positioning Hungarian Border Policy in the European Union

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