Abstract

The effect of the mismatch between the numbers of forced migrants that host governments are prepared to deal with and the actual number of those seeking refuge is that many forced migrants must find what I term ‘reluctant’ refuge—precarious, unofficial shelter. In this article, I first theorize ‘reluctance’, before introducing the concept of archaeology of the contemporary world in order to establish what makes fieldwork drawn on explicitly archaeological. Following this, I offer a concise history of the current political situation in Athens before describing my methodology. I then provide three ‘portraits’ of sites of temporary refugee shelter in the city—a squat, a non-governmental organization-managed hotel and a co-operative day centre—and discuss how these inter-relate to form a landscape of reluctant refugee shelter. The article contributes an explicitly ‘translational’ (Zimmerman et al. 2010) view of how experiences of shelter affect and shape forced displacement in Athens.

中文翻译：

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勉强的避难所：雅典（希腊）对另类避难所的活动主义考古方法

摘要

东道国政府准备处理的强迫移民数量与寻求庇护的实际人数之间的不匹配造成的后果是，许多强迫移民必须找到我所说的“勉强”庇护所-不稳定，非正式的庇护所。在本文中，我首先对“勉强”进行理论化介绍，然后再介绍当代世界的考古学概念，以建立使田野调查明确借鉴考古学的因素。在此之后，在介绍我的方法之前，我将简要介绍雅典当前的政治局势。然后，我提供了城市临时难民庇护所的三个“肖像”，即蹲地，非政府组织管理的酒店和合作式日间中心，并讨论了它们之间的相互关系如何形成了一个勉强的难民景观庇护。等。2010），关于庇护所的经历如何影响和塑造雅典的强迫流离失所。