Death and the Migrant: Bodies, Borders and Care

by Yasmin Gunaratnam

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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...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:1474238262

ISBN13:9781474238267

Release Date:May 2015

Publisher:Bloomsbury Academic

Length:216 Pages

Weight:0.69 lbs.

Dimensions:0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"

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