Full Description
This open access book focuses on migrant and minority cemetery needs through the conceptual lens of the mobilities of the living and the dead. In doing so, the book brings migration and mobility studies into much-needed dialogue with death studies to explore the symbolically and politically important issue of culturally inclusive spaces of cemeteries and crematoria for migrants and established minorities. The book addresses majority and minority cemetery and crematoria provisions and practices in a range of North West European contexts. It describes how the planning, management and use of cemeteries and crematoria in multicultural societies can tell us about the everyday lived experiences of migration and migrant heritage, urban diversity, social inclusion and exclusion in Europe, and how these relate to migrant and minority experience of lived citizenship, practices of territoriality and bordering, colonial/postcolonial narratives.
The book will be of interest to readers inthe fields of migration/mobilities studies and death studies, as well as policy makers and practitioners, such as local government officers, cemetery managers and city planners.
Contents
Part 1. Hypermobilities and Immobilities: Local-Global Relations in European Cemeteries.- 1. Hindu Mobilities and Cremation: Minority, Migrant and Gendered Dialogues and Dialectics in English and Welsh Towns (Avril Maddrell, Brenda Mathijssen, Yasminah Beebeejaun, Katie McClymont & Danny McNally).- 2. Cemeteries as Translocal Contact Zones: Navigating Regulations, Unwritten Rules and Divergent Expectations in Luxembourg City (Mariske Westendorp & Sonja Kmec).- 3. Managing Migrant Border Deaths in Southern Italy: Medico-legal, Ritual and Burial Practices (Daniela Stauffacher).- Part 2. Migrants and Minorities Past and Present in European Cemeteries.- 4. Dundee, Migration, and the Historic Jute Trade: Interweaving Bengali-Dundee Cemetery Practices and Spaces (Yasminah Beebeejaun, Danielle House & Avril Maddrell).- 5. Minorities In, Minorities Out: Cemeteries, Religious Diversity and the French Body Politic in Contemporary and Historical Perspective (Alistair Hunter).- 6. Cultural Jewishness and Geographically Bounded Identity: Negotiating Jewish Identity and the Jewish Cemetery in the Local Context of Trondheim, Norway (Ida Marie Høeg).- Part 3. Changing and Contemporary Practices in European Cemeteries.- 7. Contemporary 'Outsiders' in Narratives of Belonging in Cork's Cemeteries: Reflections on experiences of Irish Travellers and Recent Polish Migrants (Katie McClymont & Danielle House).- 8. Co-Creating and Co-Producing Multicultural Cemeteries in Norway and Sweden: A Comparative Study with Insights from Drammen, Eskilstuna and Umeå (Helena Nordh, Marianne Knapskog, Tanu Priya Uteng & Carola Wingren).- 9. The Economics and Politics of Dedicated Funerary Provision for Migrant and Minority Groups: A Perspective from the Netherlands (Christoph Jedan).- Afterword: Mobilising Death Studies.
