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.

Olga Demetriou is Senior Research Consultant at the PRIO Cyprus Centre of the International Peace Research Institute, Oslo. Since 2002, she has held positions at Wolfson College, Cambridge, as well as St. Petera¿¿s and St. Antonya¿¿s colleges in Oxford, and was a researcher for Greece and Cyprus at Amnesty Internationala¿¿s Secretariat in London between 2003 and 2008. She currently co-edits The Cyprus Review and has co-edited the 2012 special issue of the Journal of Balkan and Near East Studies on a¿¿Cultures and Conflict of Heritagea¿¿.

Chapter 1. Cotton, Smoke, 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

Post-script: Border Lives