Dying Abroad

Erscheinungsjahr 2024
ISBN: 978-1-009-28860-6
Verlag: Cambridge University Press

Buch, Englisch, 253 Seiten, Format (B × H): 327 mm x 383 mm, Gewicht: 386 g

Reihe: LSE International Studies

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Balkan, Osman

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Tod, Sterbehilfe: Soziale und Ethische Themen
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Kultur- und Sozialethnologie: Allgemeines

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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.

Über Autor(innen)

Balkan, Osman
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.