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Migrant Hospitalities in the Mediterranean:: Encounters with Alterity in Birth and Death

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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.

Vanessa Grotti is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the Department of Cultural Heritage, University of Bologna, Italy.

Marc Brightman is Professor of Anthropology at the Department of Cultural Heritage, University of Bologna, Italy.

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304.8 MIG V

Publisher

Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan Cham., 2021

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xii, 132 p.

Language

English

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9783030565855

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304.8

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Medical anthropology
Human Migration,
Critical criminology
Sociocultural anthropology

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