The Cemetery Research Group runs two events a year: in May and in November. Follow the links and send in an abstract
Repatriation: Family
Akkaymak G. & Belkhodja C. 2020
‘Does place matter? Burial decisions of Muslims in Canada’, Studies in Religion/Sciences Religieuses, 49:3, 372-388.
Balkan, O. 2015
‘Until death us do depart: the necropolitical work of Turkish funeral funds in Germany’, in Y. Suleiman (ed.) Muslims in the UK and Europe, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 19-28.
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Balkan, O. & Masarwa, Y. 2022
‘The transnational afterlives of European Muslims’, Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East, 42:1, 221-236.
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Hinkson, G. 2024
‘My navel string buried right here: posthumous body repatriation in Barbados’, in C. Huggins, A.M. Bissessar & G.M. Hinkson (eds) (2024) Post-colonial Burial and Grieving Rituals of the Caribbean, Springer, 113-127.
Horst, H. 2004
‘A pilgrimage home: burial and belonging in Jamaica’, Journal of Material Culture, 9:1, 11-26.
Hunter, A. 2016
‘Staking a claim to land, faith and family: burial location preferences of Middle Eastern Christian migrants’, Journal of Intercultural Studies, 17:2, 179-194.
Jassal, L. 2014
‘Necromobilities: the multi-sited geographies of death and disposal in a mobile world’, Mobilities, 10:3, 486-509.
Jonker, G. 1997
‘Death, gender and memory: remembering loss and burial as a migrant’, in D. Field, J. Hockey & N. Small (eds) Death, Gender and Ethnicity, London: Routledge, 187-201.
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Moreras, J. & Arraràs, A. 2019
‘Genealogies of death: Repatriation among Moroccan and Senegalese in Catalonia’, in H. Snellman, E. Koskinen-Koivisto & S. Samaro (eds) Transnational Death, Helsinki: Finnish Literature Society, 118-135.
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Rodregues, I. 2018
‘“Fallen leaves return to their roots”: the invisibility of death and the idea of “home” in the burial politics of Chinese migration’, in P. Havik, J. Mapril & C. Sariva (eds) Death on the Move: Managing Narratives, Silences, Constraints in a Trans-National Perspective, Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 56-73.
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Smith, D. 2018
‘Migration, death and conspicuous redistribution in Southeastern Nigeria’, in A. C. G. M. Robben (ed.) (2018) A Companion to the Anthropology of Death, John Wiley & Sons, 71-83.
Snellman, H. 2019
‘Negotiating belonging through death among Finnish immigrants in Sweden’, in H. Snellman, E. Koskinen-Koivisto & S. Samaro (eds) Transnational Death, Helsinki: Finnish Literature Society, 25–48.
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Westendorp, M. & Kmec, S. 2023
‘Cemeteries as translocal contact zones: navigating regulations, unwritten rules and divergent expectations in Luxembourg City’, in A. Maddrell, S. Kmec, T. Uteng, & M. Westendorp, (eds) Mobilities in Life and Death: Negotiating Room for Migrants and Minorities in European Cemeteries, Cham: Springer, 43-64.
