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Death on the move : managing narratives, silences and constraints in a trans-national perspective
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This volume explores the different aspects of the management of death, dying and mortality by migrants in Southern Europe, through deconstructing persistent idiosyncratic beliefs, myths, narratives...
This volume explores the different aspects of the management of death, dying and mortality by migrants in Southern Europe, through deconstructing persistent idiosyncratic beliefs, myths, narratives, silences, and constraints. It focuses on migrants from diverse geographical and cultural backgrounds in Portugal, Spain and Italy. It also includes reflections on Madagascar, Guinea-Bissau, East-Timor and Cuba. The thirteen chapters provide insights into epistemological issues, the trans-national circulation of bodies, spirits and rituals, migration, the placing of the dead and diverse funerary practices and perspectives. Privileging a multi-sited approach to death and migrations, this book draws on oral, archival and published sources to give visibility to populations that often live in liminal structural positions and transient worlds. By exploring the multifaceted dimensions of death and suffering among immigrant populations, it refocuses the debate on migration in Europe and beyond by highlighting under-researched issues such as end-of-life care, mental health, death, burial, cremation, funerary ceremonies and symbols, repatriation and martyrdom.
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- Creator
- edited by Philip J. Havik, José Mapril and Clara Saraiva
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- Language
- English
- Publication
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- 1st ed
- Newcastle upon Tyne, England : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2018
- Physical Details
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- 1 online resource (xxiii, 276 pages) : illustrations
- ISBNs
- 9781527510746, 1527510743, 1527507572
- Introduction / Philip J. Havik, José Mapril and Clara Saraiva -- Part I. Death : theories in motion. Death and what comes after : immobilising the dead and migration / Maurice Bloch ; Missing bodies and belonging in Manjaco : or the past and future of some funeral customs in the context of cosmopolitanism / Eric Gable ; Death that moves : a theoretical approach to death and the possible implications in transnational settings / Anastasios Panagiotopoulos ; Part II. Transnational circulation of bodies, spirits and rituals. "Fallen leaves return to their roots" : the invisibility of death and the idea of 'Home' in the burial politics of Chinese migration / Irene Rodrigues ; Diversities within cemeteries : the otherness in the expressions of the funerary heritage in Spain / Sol Tarrés, Ariadna Solé and Jordi Moreras ; Person, death and gender between Lisbon and Dhaka / José Mapril -- Part III. Migration, morbidity, mortality and public health. Transnational death survey : a focus on death related attitudes / Violeta Alarcão, Elisa Lopes, Filipe Leão Miranda and Sofia Ribeiro ; Health services and attitudes towards end of life care and death : a multi-ethnic, cross-sectional survey / Sónia Dias, Ana Gama, Ana Tavares and Violeta Alarcão ; Mental health, morbidity and mortality of African immigrant communities in Portugal : implications for primary care / Philip J. Havik -- Part IV. "Placing the dead" and the locations of death. A few lost boxes on the highway : on the move with friendship, death and national cultures / António Medeiros ; "Waiting for the reunion" : death, dying, cremation and Cape Verdean notions of belonging in Greater Lisbon / Max Ruben Ramos ; "They won't go there with flowers" : non-evident deaths in migration / Ottavia Salvador ; Moving the dead and building the nation : martyrs in Timor-Leste / Susana de Matos Viegas and Rui Graça Feijó -- Afterword / Cristiana Bastos