Full Description
This open access book applies insights from the anthropology of hospitality to illuminate ethnographic accounts of migrant reception in various parts of the Mediterranean. The contributors ground the idea and practice of hospitality in concrete ethnographic settings and challenge how the casual usage of Derridean or Kantian notions of hospitality can blur the boundaries between social scales and between metaphor and practice. Host-guest relations are multiplied through pregnancy and childbirth, and new forms of hospitality emerge with the need to offer mortuary practices for dead strangers, helping to illuminate the spatial and scalar dimensions of morality and politics in Mediterranean migrant reception.
Contents
1. Introduction: Mediterranean Migrant Hospitalities.- 2. Caring for Others, Managing Migrants: Local and Institutional Hospitality in Lampedusa (Italy).- 3. Guests and Hosts in an Athens Public Hospital: Hospitality as Lens for Analyzing Migrants' Health Care.- 4. Hosting the Dead: Forensics, Ritual and the Memorialization of Migrant Human Remains in Italy.- 5. Ritual and Ritualism in a Contested Sea: Scalar Distortions of Space and Time.
