Migrant Hospitalities in the Mediterranean
Encounters with Alterity in Birth and Death
Contributor(s)
Grotti, Vanessa (editor)
Brightman, Marc (editor)
Language
EnglishAbstract
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 usage of Derridean or Kantian notions of hospitality can blur the boundaries between social scales and between metaphor and practice. Host-guest relations are multiplied through pregnancy and childbirth, and new forms of hospitality emerge with the need to offer mortuary practices for dead strangers, helping to illuminate the spatial and scalar dimensions of morality and politics in Mediterranean migrant reception.
Keywords
Social Anthropology; Medical Anthropology; Migration; Ethnicity, Class, Gender and Crime; Sociocultural Anthropology; Sociology of Migration; Race and Ethnicity Studies; local hospitality; institutional hospitality; migration crisis; refugee crisis; public hospitals; maternity care; mortuary practice; death; mourning; Mediterranean; Open Access; Social & cultural anthropology; Anthropology; Human biology; Migration, immigration & emigration; Crime & criminologyISBN
9783030565855Publisher
Springer NaturePublisher website
http://www.springernature.com/oabooksPublication date and place
2021Imprint
Palgrave MacmillanClassification
Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography
Medical anthropology
Migration, immigration & emigration
Crime & criminology
Social and cultural anthropology
Human biology
Anthropology
Migration, immigration and emigration
Relating to migrant groups / diaspora communities or peoples
Crime and criminology