Death and the Migrant: Bodies, Borders and Care

by Yasmin Gunaratnam

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"