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Mourning Missing Migrants

Simon RobinsKarina HorstiPamela J. PrickettGiorgia MirtoVictor ToomDeborah Ruiz Verduzco

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060101 anthropology05 social sciences0601 history and archaeology06 humanities and the arts0509 other social sciences050905 science studies

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While the term missing refers to various instances and practices, we focus on the bodies of deceased migrants that remain unidentified, and on the inability of families to mourn someone when there is no body to grieve for. We deploy some ethnographic fragments of how Italian communities sometimes mourn those who are buried without a name and we describe the many problems of mourning someone whose fate is unknown through a discussion of the notion of ‘ambiguous loss’. Our contribution articulates some of the politics around deaths in migration by considering how missing migrants and their bodies are mourned in multiplicity.

yearjournalcountryeditionlanguage
2019-01-01
https://doi.org/10.5117/9789463722322_ch05