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'Money of kurbet is money of blood': the making of a 'hero' of migration at the Greek-Albanian border
dc.creator | Papailias, P. | en |
dc.date.accessioned | 2015-11-23T10:43:32Z | |
dc.date.available | 2015-11-23T10:43:32Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2003 | |
dc.identifier | 10.1080/1369183032000171366 | |
dc.identifier.issn | 1369-183X | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/11615/31792 | |
dc.description.abstract | A young Albanian who hijacked a Greek public bus in May 1999 has been apotheosised as a 'hero of migration' by fellow-Albanians. This paper considers how the hijacker's story, as narrated in a pirated cassette-recorded memorial song, has served as a collective document of everyday exploitation and violation at the hands of Greek bosses and the police, as well as a vehicle for fantasising revenge and recouping agency, voice and masculinity. The moral claims and gender ideologies asserted in this alternative account of the hijacking are grounded in a discourse of kurbet (a Turkish-derived term for 'travel-for-work') and its distinctive constructions of subjectivity, history and value. While this event reified the Greek-Albanian border, giving credence to the notion that Greeks and Albanians exist in different developmental and civilisational time-zones, the deaths of the Albanian hijacker and a Greek hostage, both men in their twenties, and the public mourning of their fathers, point to a shared crisis of social reproduction, national health and male power in the context of post-socialism and the global economy. | en |
dc.source | Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies | en |
dc.source.uri | <Go to ISI>://WOS:000187213200007 | |
dc.subject | migration | en |
dc.subject | crime | en |
dc.subject | gender | en |
dc.subject | social reproduction | en |
dc.subject | historical | en |
dc.subject | representation | en |
dc.subject | Greek-Albanian border | en |
dc.subject | Demography | en |
dc.subject | Ethnic Studies | en |
dc.title | 'Money of kurbet is money of blood': the making of a 'hero' of migration at the Greek-Albanian border | en |
dc.type | journalArticle | en |
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