By Yasmin Gunaratnam
Chapters of oral historical past and shut ethnographic remark, enriched by means of images, take the reader into the submerged worlds of end-of-life care in hospices, hospitals and houses. whereas honouring singular lives and storytelling, Death and the Migrant explores the social, fiscal and cultural landscapes that encompass the migrant deathbed within the twenty-first century. the following, daily demanding situations - the fight to belong, relieve discomfort, love good, and retain dignity and religion – offer a clean point of view on issues and debates concerning the vulnerability of the physique, transnationalism, care and hospitality.
mixing narrative bills from demise humans and care pros with insights from philosophy and feminist and significant race students, Yasmin Gunaratnam exhibits how the care of susceptible strangers assessments the substance of a neighborhood. From a thorough new interpretation of the heritage of the modern hospice stream and its 'total discomfort' strategy, to the charting of the worldwide care chain and the affective and sensual calls for of intercultural care, Gunaratnam deals a different standpoint on how migration endows and replenishes nationwide cultures and care. faraway from being a marginal drawback, Death and the Migrant indicates that transnational loss of life is especially a lot a situation of our time, elevating questions and issues which are proper to all of us.
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