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almafu_9959265811902883
Format:
1 online resource (154 p.)
ISBN:
9789048550203
Content:
Border deaths are a result of dynamics involving diverse actors, and can be interpreted and represented in various ways. Critical voices from civil society (including academia) hold states responsible for making safe journeys impossible for large parts of the world population. Meanwhile, policy-makers argue that border deaths demonstrate the need for restrictive border policies. Statistics are widely (mis)used to support different readings of border deaths. However, the way data is collected, analysed, and disseminated remains largely unquestioned. Similarly, little is known about how bodies are treated, and about the different ways in which the dead - also including the missing and the unidentified - are mourned by familiars and strangers. New concepts and perspectives contribute to highlighting the political nature of border deaths and finding ways to move forward. The chapters of this collection, co-authored by researchers and practitioners, provide the first interdisciplinary overview of this contested field.
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Frontmatter --
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Table of Contents --
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Acknowledgements --
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Preface: The Increasing Focus on Border Deaths /
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Introduction: A State-of-the-Art Exposition on Border Deaths /
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1. Various Actors: The Border Death Regime /
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2. Mortality and Border Deaths Data /
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3. Representations of Border Deaths and the Making and Unmaking of Borders /
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4. Engaging Bodies as Matters of Care /
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5. Mourning Missing Migrants /
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6. Enforced Disappearances and Border Deaths Along the Migrant Trail /
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7. Understanding the Causes of Border Deaths /
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8. Moving forward Afterword: From the Iron Curtain to Lampedusa /
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Afterword: From the Iron Curtain to Lampedusa /
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Index
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In English.
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1515/9789048550203
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1515/9789048550203
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1515/9789048550203
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