Capricious Borders : : Minority, Population, and Counter-Conduct Between Greece and Turkey / / Olga Demetriou.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2000-2013
• VerfasserIn: Demetriou, Olga,
• Place / Publishing House: New York ;, Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2013]; ©2013
• Year of Publication: 2013
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (240 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; CONTENTS --; List of Illustrations --; Acknowledgements --; Note on Transliteration --; Chapter 1. Cotton, Tobacco, Sunflowers --; Chapter 2. Heritage, History, Legacies --; Chapter 3. Counter-Bordering --; Chapter 4. Naming and Counter-Names --; Chapter 5. The Politics of Genealogy --; Chapter 6. Grounds of State Care --; Chapter 7. The Self-Excluding Community --; Chapter 8. The Political Life of Marriage --; Conclusion. Being Political --; Postscript. Border Lives --; References --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780857458995; 9783110998283
• DOI: 10.1515/9780857458995
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Olga Demetriou.

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.