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What happens when death becomes part of the journey of international migrants?
This book examines how mortality is woven into the experience of displacement and migration. From perilous border crossings to the business of repatriation and contested burial grounds, it reveals the hidden geographies and politics that underpin the death of migrants in transit or abroad. Drawing together diverse research across disciplines, it offers a cohesive framework for understanding the industries, rituals and emotional labour surrounding migrant death.
Whether through bureaucratic processes, artistic productions, activist mobilizations or collective mourning, death becomes not an endpoint, but a powerful force shaping how migration is lived, governed and remembered.
‘Death and migration are deeply linked, and Boccagni and Lacroix illuminate with sensitivity and analytical depth the layered intersections of death, migration, place, meaning, ritual, borders, bureaucracies and belonging to reveal the politics of community building, practices of memorialization and the hierarchies of risk. Death in Migration is a comprehensive, original and moving contribution that resonates emotionally and intellectually while charting new directions for future research.’ Cecilia Menjívar, University of California, Los Angeles
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.
Foreword by Judith Misrahi-Barak and Bidisha Banerjee
Introduction
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