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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: Death and the migrant
    sub title: bodies, borders and care
  name:
    name part: Gunaratnam, Yasmin
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Electronic books.
  genre: Popular Work
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    date issued: 2013
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (208 pages) : illustrations (black and white)
  abstract: Death and the Migrant is a sociological account of transnational dying and care in British cities. It chronicles two decades of the ageing and dying of the UK's cohort of post-war migrants, as well as more recent arrivals. Chapters of oral history and close ethnographic observation, enriched by photographs, take the reader into the submerged worlds of end-of-life care in hospices, hospitals and homes. While honouring singular lives and storytelling, Death and the Migrant explores the social, economic and cultural landscapes that surround the migrant deathbed in the twenty-first century. Here,
  table of contents: HalfTitle; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Illustrations; Acknowledgements; Preface; Elephant Pass(t); 1 Death and the Migrant -- An Introduction; Frank, A first journey; Harshini, The last migration; Diasporic dying; Hospice-tality and the geo-social; Mortal chorographies; The book; 2 Eros; The promise; David; The face; Dust and guts; 3 Thanatos; 4 A Catch; Dirt; Paranoia; Comin throu the rye; Patience; 5 Never Mind; Violet is unbalanced.; Silver lining; Les Fleurs du Mal; 6 Dissimulation; Shock; Body heat; 7 Moving On; Faith; 8 Music; Noise; Hospice-tality; 9 The Prince and the Pee.
  table of contents: Tings10 Failing, Falling; Inklings; The high wire; Not-knowing; In the skin of a lion; 11 Home; Body work; Slowly, slowly; Genograms; A view; A cough; 12 Pain; Total pain: 'All of me is wrong'; Case stories; Being affected to learn; 13 The Foreigner Question -- An Epilogue; Sweet chariot; Geese20; 14 Appendix: Research and Methods; Stories, writing, care; Notes; Bibliography; Index.
  note: Yasmin Gunaratnam.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-192) and index.
  note: English.
  subject:
    geographic code: e-uk---
  subject:
    topic: Immigrants
    geographic: Great Britain
    topic: Death
  subject:
    topic: Immigrants
    topic: Death
    topic: Social aspects
    geographic: Great Britain
  subject:
    topic: Manners and customs
  subject:
    topic: Terminally Ill
    topic: psychology
  subject:
    topic: Emigrants and Immigrants
    topic: psychology
  subject:
    topic: Cultural Characteristics
  subject:
    topic: Terminal Care
  subject:
    geographic: United Kingdom
  subject:
    topic: Mœurs et coutumes
  subject:
    topic: Soins en phase terminale
  subject:
    topic: customs (social concepts)
  subject:
    topic: POLITICAL SCIENCE
    topic: Public Policy
    topic: Cultural Policy
  subject:
    topic: SOCIAL SCIENCE
    topic: Anthropology
    topic: Cultural
  subject:
    topic: SOCIAL SCIENCE
    topic: Popular Culture
  subject:
    topic: Manners and customs
  subject:
    geographic: Great Britain
  classification: HQ1073.5
  classification: 306.9 23
  classification: 2014 E-180
  classification: WB 310
  classification: MS 1212
  classification: MS 2700
  classification: MS 3600
  identifier: 147251534X
  identifier: 9781472515346
  identifier: 9781472515339
  identifier: 1472515331
  identifier: 1472544412
  identifier: 9781472544414
  identifier: 178093405X
  identifier: 9781780934051
  identifier: 9781306723206
  identifier: 1306723205
  identifier: 603571 MIL
  identifier: http://proxy.library.tamu.edu/login
  record info:
    record content source: CDX
    record creation date: 140519
    record change date: 20250218182637.8
    record identifier: in00005617378
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng