Bureaucracies of Death
State and Religious Protocols in the Cemetery of Unidentified Immigrants in Sidiro (Evros Region, Greece)
In: Das Mittelmeer und der Tod
Author:
Nefeli Angeliki Bami
Nefeli Angeliki Bami
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The purpose of this research is to describe the bureaucratic procedures that follow the death of irregular immigrants in Greece and stress the attention to a cemetery of unidentified immigrants in Sidiro, a village placed near the Greek-Turkish border. The difficulty of the identification of the buried unidentified immigrants on this cemetery results from a combination of interrelated factors which act on international, national and local level. The arbitrary identification of an irregular immigrant with a Muslim, the political indifference of the Greek state and the distance between the secular and religious perception of death are the source of this process.