Mobilities in Life and Death Negotiating Room for Migrants and Minorities in European Cemeteries

• Other Authors: Maddrell, Avril (Editor), Kmec, Sonja (Editor), Priya Uteng, Tanu (Editor), Westendorp, Mariske (Editor)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Cham Springer Nature 2023
• Series: IMISCOE Research Series
• Subjects: Migration, immigration & emigration; Public administration; Cemeteries and crematoria as shared public space; Cemeteries and crematoria in multicultural societies; Diversity and minority issues in cemeteries and crematoria; Negotiation between majority and minorities practices; Symbolic practices and cultural inclusion in public spaces; Migrant and minority sacred practices and spiritual mobility; Lived citizenship and integration in ritual spaces; Planning, management and use of cemeteries and crematoria; Secularization and post-secularization in Europe; Hyperdiversity and remembrance rites; Cemeteries in multicultural post-secular society; French cemeteries and religious diversity; Funeral provisions and economic considerations; Polish migrants and cemeteries; Migration and changing cemeteries in Germany; Jews diaspora and contemporary cemeteries; Traveller communities and cemeteries; Bengali-heritage communities and crematoria; Hindu cremation and funerary practices in England and Wales
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This open access book focuses on migrant and minority cemetery needs through the conceptual lens of the mobilities of the living and the dead. In doing so, the book brings migration and mobility studies into much-needed dialogue with death studies to explore the symbolically and politically important issue of culturally inclusive spaces of cemeteries and crematoria for migrants and established minorities. The book addresses majority and minority cemetery and crematoria provisions and practices in a range of North West European contexts. It describes how the planning, management and use of cemeteries and crematoria in multicultural societies can tell us about the everyday lived experiences of migration and migrant heritage, urban diversity, social inclusion and exclusion in Europe, and how these relate to migrant and minority experience of lived citizenship, practices of territoriality and bordering, colonial/postcolonial narratives. The book will be of interest to readers in the fields of migration/mobilities studies and death studies, as well as policy makers and practitioners, such as local government officers, cemetery managers and city planners.