Transnational death / / edited by Samira Saramo, Eerika Koskinen-Koivisto and Hanna Snellman.

• Superior document: Studia Fennica. Ethnologica ; 17
• TeilnehmendeR: Saramo, Samira,; Koskinen-Koivisto, Eerika,; Snellman, Hanna,
• Place / Publishing House: Helsinki : : Finnish Literature Society / SKS,, [2019]; ©2019
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Series: Studia Fennica. Ethnologica 17.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (218 pages ) :; illustrations.

"With so much of the global population living on the move, away from their homelands, and in diasporic communities, death and mourning practices are inevitably impacted. Transnational Death brings together eleven cutting-edge articles from the emerging field of transnational death studies. By highlighting European, Asian, North American, and Middle Eastern perspectives, the collection provides timely and fresh analysis and reflection on people's changing experiences with death in the context of migration over time. First beginning with a thematic assessment of the field of transnational death studies, readers then have the opportunity to delve into case studies that examine experiences with death and mourning at a distance from the viewpoints of Family, Community, and Commemoration. The chapters highlight complicated issues confronting migrants, their families, and communities, including: negotiations of burial preferences and challenges of corpse repatriation; the financial costs of providing end-of-life care, travel at times of death, and arranging culturally appropriate funerals and religious services; as well as the emotional and sociocultural weight of mourning and commemoration from afar. Overall, Transnational Death provides new insights on identity and belonging, community reciprocity, transnational communication, and spaces of mourning and commemoration"-- Publisher's description.

Table of Contents

Introductory essay : Making transnational death familiar / Samira Saramo -- Negotiating belonging through death among Finnish immigrants in Sweden / Hanna Snellman -- Doing death kin work in Polish transnational families / Anna Matyska -- The emotional costs of being unable to attend the funeral of a relative in one's country or origin / Josiane Le Gall and Lilyane Rachédi -- Expressing communality : Zapotec death and mourning across transnational frontiers / Lourdes Gutiérrez Nájera and Ana D. Alonso Ortiz -- The spirit of the gift : Burmese Buddhist death rituals in North America / Chipamong Chowdhury -- Genealogies of death : repatriation among Moroccan and Senegalese in Catalonia / Jordi Moreras and Ariadna Solé Arraràs -- Our foreign hero : a Croatian goalkeeper and his Swedish desth / Katarzyna Herd -- Coping with the consequences of terror : the transnational visual narratives of Coptic Orthodox martyrdom / Cordula Weisskoeppel -- Transnationally forgotten and re-remembered : Second World War Soviet mass graves at Mäntyvaara, eastern Finnish Lapland / Oula Seitsonen -- Transnational heritage work and commemorative rituals across the Finnish-Russian border in the old Salla region / Eerika Koskinen-Koivisto.