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Death and the Migrant (ePub eBook)


Death and the Migrant (ePub eBook)

eBook by Gunaratnam, Yasmin;

Death and the Migrant (ePub eBook)

£30.59

ISBN:
9781472515339
Publication Date:
21 Nov 2013
Publisher:
Bloomsbury Publishing
Imprint:
Bloomsbury Academic
Pages:
208 pages
Format:
eBook
For delivery:
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Death and the Migrant (ePub eBook)

Description

This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com.Death and the Migrant is a sociological account of transnational dying and care in British cities. It chronicles two decades of the ageing and dying of the UK's cohort of post-war migrants, as well as more recent arrivals. Chapters of oral history and close ethnographic observation, enriched by photographs, take the reader into the submerged worlds of end-of-life care in hospices, hospitals and homes. While honouring singular lives and storytelling, Death and the Migrant explores the social, economic and cultural landscapes that surround the migrant deathbed in the twenty-first century. Here, everyday challenges - the struggle to belong, relieve pain, love well, and maintain dignity and faith - provide a fresh perspective on concerns and debates about the vulnerability of the body, transnationalism, care and hospitality. Blending narrative accounts from dying people and care professionals with insights from philosophy and feminist and critical race scholars, Yasmin Gunaratnam shows how the care of vulnerable strangers tests the substance of a community. From a radical new interpretation of the history of the contemporary hospice movement and its 'total pain' approach, to the charting of the global care chain and the affective and sensual demands of intercultural care, Gunaratnam offers a unique perspective on how migration endows and replenishes national cultures and care. Far from being a marginal concern, Death and the Migrant shows that transnational dying is very much a predicament of our time, raising questions and concerns that are relevant to all of us.

Contents

Contents 1 Death and the Migrant - An Introduction 1.1 Diasporic Dying 1.2 Hospice-tality and the geo-social 1.3 Mortal Chorographies 1.4 The Book 2 Eros 2.1 The promise 2.2 A Window 2.3 David 2.4 The Face 2.5 Dust and Guts 3 Thanatos 4 A Catch 4.1 Dirt 4.2 Paranoia 4.3 Comin throu the rye 4.4 Patience 5 Never Mind 5.1 Silver Lining 5.2 Les Fleurs du Mal 6 Dissimulation 6.1 Shock 6.2 Body Heat 7 Moving On 7.1 Faith 8 Music 8.1 Noise 8.2 Hospitality 9 The Prince and the Pee 9.1 Tings 10 Failing/Falling 10.1 Inklings 10.2 The High Wire 10.3 Not-knowing 10.4 In the Skin of a Lion 11 Home 11.1 Body work 11.2 Slowly, Slowly 11.3 Genograms 11.4 A View 11.5 A Cough 12 Pain 12.1 Total Pain: 'all of me is wrong' 12.2 Case Stories 12.3 Being Affected to Learn 13 Epilogue: The Foreigner Question Sweet Chariot Geese - John Burnside 14 Appendix: Research and Methods Stories, Writing, Care List of illustrations

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