Death in Migration

Foregrounding Loss, Grieving and Memory Out of Place
1. Auflage 2026
ISBN: 978-1-5292-4351-2
Verlag: Bristol University Press

Buch, Englisch, 176 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm

Reihe: Global Migration and Social Change

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 mobilisations or collective mourning, death becomes not an endpoint, but a powerful force shaping how migration is lived, governed and remembered.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Boccagni, Paolo

Lacroix, Thomas

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface - Bidisha Banerjee, Judith Misrahi-Barak

Introduction

Part 1: 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 2: 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

Über Autor(innen)

Lacroix, Thomas
Thomas Lacroix is CNRS Director of Research in Geography at Centre for International Studies, Sciences Po and member of the Convergence Institute for Migration, Paris.

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 Centre for International Studies, Sciences Po and member of the Convergence Institute for Migration, Paris.