Migrant hospitalities in the Mediterranean : encounters with alterity in birth and death

Migrant hospitalities in the Mediterranean : encounters with alterity in birth and death / Vanessa Grotti, Marc Brightman, editors.

This open access book applies insights from the anthropology of hospitality to illuminate ethnographic accounts of migrant reception in various parts of the Mediterranean. The contributors ground the idea and practice of hospitality in concrete ethnographic settings and challenge how the casual usag...

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Other Authors: Grotti, Vanessa Elisa (Editor), Brightman, Marc (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, 2020.
Subjects:
Emigration and immigration > Public opinion
Emigration and immigration > Social aspects
Mediterranean Region > Emigration and immigration > Public opinion.
Mediterranean Region > Emigration and immigration > Social aspects.
Mediterranean Region
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Table of Contents:
  • 1. Introduction: Mediterranean Migrant Hospitalities
  • 2. Caring for Others, Managing Migrants: Local and Institutional Hospitality in Lampedusa (Italy)
  • 3. Guests and Hosts in an Athens Public Hospital: Hospitality as Lens for Analyzing Migrants Health Care
  • 4. Hosting the Dead: Forensics, Ritual and the Memorialization of Migrant Human Remains in Italy
  • 5. Ritual and Ritualism in a Contested Sea: Scalar Distortions of Space and Time.

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