Final Journeys (eBook, PDF)

Migrant End-of-life Care and Rituals in Europe
Redaktion: Hunter, Alistair; Ammann, Eva Soom

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This book showcases a wealth of new research looking at end-of-life care and rituals in contexts of post-migration diversity. Drawing on seven studies from across Europe, the book underlines that death is a critical juncture in the settlement of migrant-origin communities. This book was originally published as a special issue of the Journal of Intercultural Studies.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 132
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Juli 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351718431
• Artikelnr.: 56950334

Autorenporträt

Alistair Hunter is a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Edinburgh, within the Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies subject area. His current research focuses on ageing and dying in migratory contexts. Eva Soom Ammann is lecturer and senior researcher in Nursing at the Health Division of Bern University of Applied Sciences. Her research is in the fields of Medical Anthropology, Migration Studies, Public Health and Health Care.

Inhaltsangabe

1. End-of-life Care and Rituals in Contexts of Post-migration Diversity in
Europe: An Introduction 2. The 'Other' in End-of-life Care: Providers'
Understandings of Patients with Migrant Backgrounds 3. The Art of Enduring
Contradictory Goals: Challenges in the Institutional Co-construction of a
'good death' 4. End-of-life Care and Beyond 5. Between Civil Society and
the State: Bureaucratic Competence and Cultural Mediation among Muslim
Undertakers in Berlin 6. The Importance of a Religious Funeral Ceremony
Among Turkish Migrants and Their Descendants in Germany: What Role do
Socio-demographic Characteristics Play? 7. Staking a Claim to Land, Faith
and Family: Burial Location Preferences of Middle Eastern Christian
Migrants 8. Uncertain Belongings: Absent Mourning, Burial, and Post-mortem
Repatriations at the External Border of the EU in Spain