ISBN:
9781009288576
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (256 pages)
Series Statement:
LSE International Studies
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
393.0882970943
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
An original and immersive account of how immigrant communities navigate end-of-life decisions while facing barriers to political inclusion and citizenship.
Abstract:
Cover -- Series page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Dedication -- Epigraph -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Acknowledgments -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction: Death Out of Place -- Migrants, Minorities, and the Foreigners Within -- An Ethnography of Transnational Deathways -- The Politics of Dead Bodies and Everyday Necropolitics -- The Man in Pennsylvania -- Overview of Chapters -- 1 Islamic Funeral Funds and the Moral Economy of Repatriation -- 1.1 Burial Societies, Risk Management, and Transnational Funerals -- 1.2 "Out of a Longing for Their Homeland" -- 1.3 "We Make Sure that the Bodies Get to Turkey" -- 2 Muslim Undertakers and the Bureaucracy of Death -- 2.1 The Dismal Trade? -- 2.2 The Bureaucracy of Death -- 2.3 "This Is Not an Anatolian Village" -- 2.4 "You're a Muslim?" -- 3 Memory and Identity in Diaspora Cemeteries -- 3.1 Berlin's Islamic Deathscapes -- 3.2 Writing the Dead I: Quranic Verse and Islamic Text -- 3.3 Writing the Dead II: Genealogies, Biographies, and Commemorative Culture -- 3.4 Seeing the Dead I: Flags, Photos, Moons, and Stars -- 3.5 Seeing the Dead II: Mosques and Minarets -- 4 Burial and Belonging -- 4.1 Islamic Funerary Tradition and the Laws of the Dead in Germany -- 4.2 A Home after Death? -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index.
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