Death on the Move : Managing Narratives, Silences and Constraints in a Trans-National Perspective.

Intro -- Table of Contents -- List of Illustrations -- List of Tables -- Foreword -- Editors' Note -- Introduction -- Part I: Death -- Chapter One -- The Transcendental and the Transactional -- The Organic, the Inorganic and the Immovable -- Decomposing Bodies and Permanent Places -- Migration Abroad -- Chapter Two -- Introduction -- Shameful Suicides -- Remittances -- Death as Remittance -- Concluding Remarks -- Chapter Three -- Death and Anthropology -- The Dead in Cuba -- Death and Migration: or "death-and-migration" -- Part II: Transnational Circulation of Bodies, Spirits and Rituals -- Chapter Four -- Introduction -- Statistical Trifles and a very Coolie Urban Myth -- A Public Funeral and a Private Death -- Creating Roots and the Idea of 'Home' in Chinese Migration -- Chapter Five -- Introduction -- The Place of the "Other Deceased" in History -- The Experience of Ordinance -- The English Cemetery in Malaga -- The Muslim Cemetery in Barcia (Asturias) -- The Hebrew Tombs in the Cemetery of Sant Andreu de Palomar (Barcelona) -- Conclusions -- Chapter Six -- Introduction -- A History of Bangladeshis in Portugal -- The Dithidar-bari -- Places of Relatedness -- Living Widowhood Transnationally -- Conclusions -- Part III-Migration, Morbidity, Mortality and Public Health -- Chapter Seven -- Introduction -- Methods -- Results -- Conclusions -- Appendix -- Chapter Eight -- Introduction -- Methods -- Results -- Conclusions -- Appendix -- Chapter Nine -- Introduction -- Immigrant Communities, Mental Illness and Public Health in Portugal -- Migrants' and Practitioners' Perceptions -- Final Considerations -- Part IV-"Placing the Dead" and the Locations of Death -- Chapter Ten -- Friends -- Some Traps in the Highway, Flows of Culture and Stories from Ribadavia -- Which "Country" of the Blessed Souls? -- (Still) Domesticated Monuments to the Dead.

Conclusions -- Chapter Eleven -- Introduction -- The Cape Verdeans in Portugal -- Death, Repatriation and Cremation among Cape Verdeans in Portugal -- The Nazarenes in Portugal -- Waiting for the Reunion -- Conclusions -- Chapter Twelve -- Introduction -- Inside Stories -- Meaningful Bodies -- Oral Sources -- Appendix -- Chapter Thirteen -- Introduction -- Contemporary and Past tensions -- The Ossuary and the Ambivalence of the Armed Struggle -- Opposing Scales -- Caivaca´s Memorial -- Burying in the Place of Origin -- Conclusions -- Acknowledgements -- Afterword -- Contributors -- Index.

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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