Osman Balkan (University of Pennsylvania)

Dying Abroad

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• LSE International Studies
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 280
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. April 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 512g
• ISBN-13: 9781009288583
• ISBN-10: 100928858X
• Artikelnr.: 66222296

Autorenporträt

Osman Balkan is Associate Director of the Huntsman Program in International Studies and Business at the University of Pennsylvania. His research focuses on borders and migration, citizenship and identity, race and ethnicity, transnationalism, cultural memory, Islam, and necropolitics.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: death out of place
1. Islamic funeral funds and the moral economy of repatriation
2. Muslim undertakers and the bureaucracy of death
3. Memory and identity in minority cemeteries
4. Burial and belonging
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index.