Introduction: Migration, Death and Mobilities

Good and bad death: introduction.

The idea for this collection arose during a workshop chaired by Sjaak van der Geest, for which Clive Seale wrote an initial review paper (Seale 2000), and took place in November 2000 at the 15th Social Science & Medicine conference in Eindhoven, The Netherlands. The workshop provided participants with a fascinating opportunity to explore the considerable cross-cultural variation in patterns of ...

Introduction: living death

This book is about the ways in which certain medieval literary texts use death, dying and the dead to think about problems relating to life – problems political, social, ethical, philosophical or existential. More specifically, it is about the dynamic interface between life and death and about figures caught at that interface, hence ‘living death’. There are ghosts and revenants who, although d...

Editorial: Surveillance and Mobilities

The editorial introduces the pieces in this special issue on surveillance and mobilities. It draws out the key themes of the issue, asking: what is meant by ‘mobility’ and why it deserves such a focus; what are the goals and purposes of the surveillance of mobilities; and finally, what are the consequences. It proposes a simple typology of mobilities: ‘what moves’ (body, transactions, and artef...

Introduction to Kirchhoff migration programs

Introduction to Mobility, Migration, and Acculturation

Within a globalized world, resettling from one country to another has become more and more frequent (i.e., the number of immigrants is currently estimated at more than 190 Million worldwide by the United Nations), and not only in classical immigration countries such as the USA, Canada, Australia, and South American countries. Reasons for migration vary, and range from escaping from extremely ad...