Death in Migration

Paolo Boccagni is Professor of Sociology in the Department of Sociology and Social Research at the University of Trento.Thomas Lacroix is CNRS Director of Research in Geography at the Centre for International Studies, Sciences Po and member of the Convergence Institute for Migration, Paris.

‘With erudition and pedagogy, this book offers an extensive overview of contemporary approaches to displaced death and of the intricate, material and symbolic entanglements between death and migration. An essential read for scholars in death studies and those working on displacement.’ Carolina Kobelinsky, CNRS - Université Paris Nanterre

• Foreword by Judith Misrahi-Barak and Bidisha BanerjeeIntroduction Part I: Death in the Life Course on the Move: An Event and Its Aftermath Out of Place 1. Making Sense of Death in Migration 2. Emplacing Death Out of Place 3. Death and the Politics of Community Building Part II: Death on the Border: Disruption, Risk, Spectral Presence 4. Losing Life and Missing Lives on the Routes of Migration 5. Grief-Activism: Coping with Loss, Mourning and Grief 6. Death and Migration in Arts and Humanities: Representing, Narrating, Claiming Conclusion