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Title Death on the move : managing narratives, silences and constraints in a trans-national perspective / edited by Philip J. Havik, José Mapril and Clara Saraiva
Published Newcastle upon Tyne, UK : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2018

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Description 1 online resource (xxiii, 276 pages) : illustrations
Contents 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
Summary 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 pra
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
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Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed April 30, 2018)
Subject Immigrants -- Europe, Southern -- Social conditions
Dead -- Social aspects -- Europe, Southern
Burial -- Social aspects -- Europe, Southern -- History
Immigrants -- Social life and customs
History.
Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography.
Sociology.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies.
Dead -- Social aspects
Emigration and immigration
Immigrants -- Social conditions
Immigrants -- Social life and customs
SUBJECT Europe, Southern -- Emigration and immigration
Subject Southern Europe
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Havik, Philip J.
Mapril, José.
Saraiva, Clara.
ISBN 9781527507579
1527507572
9781527510746
1527510743