Dying abroad : the political afterlives of migration in Europe / Osman Balkan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Balkan, Osman, author.

Series:

LSE International Studies.

LSE international studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Turks--Funeral customs and rites--Germany.

Turks.

Turks--Germany--Social conditions.

Muslims--Social conditions--Germany.

Muslims.

Islamic funeral rites and ceremonies--Germany.

Islamic funeral rites and ceremonies.

Islamic cemeteries--Social aspects--Germany.

Islamic cemeteries.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvii, 235 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2023.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Introduction : death out of place

Islamic funeral funds and the moral economy of repatriation

Muslim undertakers and the bureaucracy of death

Memory and identity in minority cemeteries

Burial and belonging

Conclusion.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 30 Mar 2023).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-009-28857-1

1-009-28856-3

9781009288569

OCLC:

1374428786