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Informationen zum Autor Yasmin Gunaratnam is a Senior Lecturer in the Sociology Department at Goldsmiths College, University of London, UK. She has been working on issues of race and gender equality in health and social care for the past twenty years at the Open University, Southampton University and the University of Central Lancashire. She is author of Researching Race and Ethnicity (2003) and has jointly edited Narratives and Stories in Health Care with David Oliviere (2009). This book considers the plight of the dying migrant as a situation that helps us to better understand some of the fundamental conditions of contemporary societies. The book aims to show how dislocated dying is very much a phenomena of our time, articulating foundational conundrums of community, belonging and citizenship. Zusammenfassung This book considers the plight of the dying migrant as a situation that helps us to better understand some of the fundamental conditions of contemporary societies. The book aims to show how dislocated dying is very much a phenomena of our time, articulating foundational conundrums of community, belonging and citizenship. Inhaltsverzeichnis Contents1 Death and the Migrant – An Introduction1.1 Diasporic Dying1.2 Hospice-tality and the geo-social1.3 Mortal Chorographies 1.4 The Book2 Eros2.1 The promise2.2 A Window2.3 David2.4 The Face2.5 Dust and Guts3 Thanatos4 A Catch4.1 Dirt4.2 Paranoia4.3 Comin throu the rye4.4 Patience5 Never Mind5.1 Silver Lining5.2 Les Fleurs du Mal6 Dissimulation6.1 Shock6.2 Body Heat7 Moving On7.1 Faith8 Music8.1 Noise8.2 Hospitality9 The Prince and the Pee9.1 Tings10 Failing/Falling10.1 Inklings10.2 The High Wire10.3 Not-knowing10.4 In the Skin of a Lion11 Home11.1 Body work11.2 Slowly, Slowly11.3 Genograms11.4 A View11.5 A Cough12 Pain12.1 Total Pain: ‘all of me is wrong’12.2 Case Stories12.3 Being Affected to Learn13 Epilogue: The Foreigner QuestionSweet ChariotGeese – John Burnside14 Appendix: Research and MethodsStories, Writing, CareList of illustrations...
