Description |
1 online resource (208 pages) : illustrations (black and white) |
Note |
Print version record. |
Contents |
HalfTitle; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Illustrations; Acknowledgements; Preface; Elephant Pass(t); 1 Death and the Migrant -- An Introduction; Frank, A first journey; Harshini, The last migration; Diasporic dying; Hospice-tality and the geo-social; Mortal chorographies; The book; 2 Eros; The promise; David; The face; Dust and guts; 3 Thanatos; 4 A Catch; Dirt; Paranoia; Comin throu the rye; Patience; 5 Never Mind; Violet is unbalanced.; Silver lining; Les Fleurs du Mal; 6 Dissimulation; Shock; Body heat; 7 Moving On; Faith; 8 Music; Noise; Hospice-tality; 9 The Prince and the Pee. |
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Tings10 Failing, Falling; Inklings; The high wire; Not-knowing; In the skin of a lion; 11 Home; Body work; Slowly, slowly; Genograms; A view; A cough; 12 Pain; Total pain: 'All of me is wrong'; Case stories; Being affected to learn; 13 The Foreigner Question -- An Epilogue; Sweet chariot; Geese20; 14 Appendix: Research and Methods; Stories, writing, care; Notes; Bibliography; Index. |
Summary |
Death and the Migrant is a sociological account of transnational dying and care in British cities. It chronicles two decades of the ageing and dying of the UK's cohort of post-war migrants, as well as more recent arrivals. Chapters of oral history and close ethnographic observation, enriched by photographs, take the reader into the submerged worlds of end-of-life care in hospices, hospitals and homes. While honouring singular lives and storytelling, Death and the Migrant explores the social, economic and cultural landscapes that surround the migrant deathbed in the twenty-first century. Here, |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-192) and index. |
Local Note |
Bloomsbury Publishing Bloomsbury Open Access |
Language |
English. |
Subject |
Immigrants -- Great Britain -- Death.
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Immigrants -- Great Britain -- Death -- Social aspects.
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Terminally Ill -- psychology.
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Emigrants and Immigrants -- psychology.
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Cultural Characteristics.
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Terminal Care.
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United Kingdom.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture.
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Great Britain. (OCoLC)fst01204623
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Genre/Form |
Popular Work.
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Other Form: |
Print version: 9781306723206 |
ISBN |
147251534X (electronic book) |
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9781472515346 (electronic book) |
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9781472515339 |
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1472515331 |
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178093405X |
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9781780934051 |
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9781306723206 |
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1306723205 |
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1472544412 |
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9781472544414 |
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