Dying abroad
the political afterlives of migration in Europe
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2024
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Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-1-009-28860-6 (ISBN)
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-1-009-28860-6 (ISBN)
In Dying Abroad, Osman Balkan examines the political significance of death and dying in the context of international migration. Offering a rich, ethnographic account of a universal yet understudied dimension of the migratory experience, he sheds new light on the meaning of home and belonging in an increasingly transnational world.
On any given day, the remains of countless deceased migrants are shipped around the world to be buried in ancestral soils. Others are laid to rest in countries of settlement, sometimes in cemeteries established for religious and ethnic minorities, where available. For immigrants and their descendants, perennial questions about the meaning of home and homeland take on a particular gravitas in death. When the boundaries of a nation and its members are contested, burial decisions are political acts. Building on multi-sited fieldwork in Berlin and Istanbul – where the author worked as an undertaker – Dying Abroad offers a moving and powerful account of migrants' end-of-life dilemmas, vividly illustrating how they are connected to ongoing political struggles over the stakes of citizenship, belonging, and collective identity in contemporary Europe.
On any given day, the remains of countless deceased migrants are shipped around the world to be buried in ancestral soils. Others are laid to rest in countries of settlement, sometimes in cemeteries established for religious and ethnic minorities, where available. For immigrants and their descendants, perennial questions about the meaning of home and homeland take on a particular gravitas in death. When the boundaries of a nation and its members are contested, burial decisions are political acts. Building on multi-sited fieldwork in Berlin and Istanbul – where the author worked as an undertaker – Dying Abroad offers a moving and powerful account of migrants' end-of-life dilemmas, vividly illustrating how they are connected to ongoing political struggles over the stakes of citizenship, belonging, and collective identity in contemporary Europe.
Osman Balkan is Associate Director of the Huntsman Program in International Studies and Business at the University of Pennsylvania. His research focuses on borders and migration, citizenship and identity, race and ethnicity, transnationalism, cultural memory, Islam, and necropolitics.
Introduction: death out of place; 1. Islamic funeral funds and the moral economy of repatriation; 2. Muslim undertakers and the bureaucracy of death; 3. Memory and identity in minority cemeteries; 4. Burial and belonging; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.
| Erscheinungsdatum | 17.08.2024 |
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| Reihe/Serie | LSE International Studies |
| Zusatzinfo | Illustrationen |
| Verlagsort | Cambridge |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Gewicht | 373 g |
| Einbandart | kartoniert |
| Themenwelt | Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Mikrosoziologie |
| ISBN-10 | 1-009-28860-1 / 1009288601 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-009-28860-6 / 9781009288606 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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