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Now affiliated with the PRIO Cyprus Centre of the International Peace Research Institute, Oslo, social anthropologist Demetriou has had previous affiliations with Cambridge U. and Oxford U. as well as Amnesty International. This book results from about a decade of investigation into questions concerning identity and rights in western Thrace, where Greeks and Turks interact in complex ways. The study is an examination of multiple dimensions of everyday life including economic ties, history and legacies, naming, the politics of genealogy, marriage, and life on the border. Annotation ©2013 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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Borders of states, borders of citizenship, borders of exclusion. As the lines drawn on international treaty maps become ditches in the ground and roaming barriers in the air, a complex state apparatus is set up to regulate the lives of those who cannot be expelled, yet who have never been properly ‘rooted’. This study explores the mechanisms employed at the interstices of two opposing views on the presence of minority populations in western Thrace: the legalization of their status as établis (established) and the failure to incorporate the minority in the Greek national imaginary. Revealing the logic of government bureaucracy shows how they replicate difference from the inter-state level to the communal and the personal.
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