Dying Abroad : The Political Afterlives of Migration in Europe

Name: Dying Abroad
Brand: Cambridge University Press
SKU: 9781009288606
Price: 5550 KES
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ISBN: 9781009288606

by Osman Balkan

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Format Paperback / softback

Book Series LSE International Studies

ISBN-10 1009288601

ISBN-13 9781009288606

Publisher Cambridge University Press

Imprint Cambridge University Press

Country of Manufacture GB

Country of Publication GB

Publication Date Aug 22nd, 2024

Print length 253 Pages

Weight 386 grams

Dimensions 22.80 x 15.30 x 1.80 cms

Product Classification: Sociology & anthropology Sociology and anthropology Sociology Sociology: death & dying Sociology: death and dying Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography Social and cultural anthropology

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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.

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