Identifying dead migrants
Forensic Care Work and Relational Citizenship
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4525035 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Amade M’charek (0000-0001-5242-2406, University of Amsterdam), Sara Casartelli (0000-0002-6391-5414, University of Amsterdam) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 23 |
| Issue | 7 |
| Pages | 738-757 |
| Publication date | 2019-10-03 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Citizenship Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1362-1025 • E-ISSN: 1469-3593 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/13621025.2019.1651102 |
| OpenAlex | W2964520034 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 25 |
| References cited | 17 |
The Mediterranean Sea has become an iconic site in the so-called migration crisis. Thousands of dead bodies have washed up on the southern beaches of Europe. We draw on ethnographic material collected at sites in Italy where the bodies of drowned migrants have been cared for by professionals and volunteers. We argue that while caring for the dead allows them to be identified as persons, it also produces relationships that go beyond formal citizenship. We introduce the notion of forensic care work to analyse the practice of identification and show how it produces a relational citizenship. We follow the movement of bodies from where they are found to examination and burial. We show that this process involves constant tinkering and experimenting with in this specific forensic practice and argue that caring for the dead requires caring for the forensic infrastructure
Citizenship · Criminology · Ethnography · Identification (biology · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Work (physics · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Anthropology · Engineering · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Sex work and related issues · Ecology · Law
Mortal relationality
Adapting international forensic protocols to local needs
Undoing Nothing
Tentacular Thinking in Storied Places
Engaging Bodies as Matters of Care
Border Deaths
On the (past) verge of death
Border Deaths
“Justice Futures”
Cultures of Citizenship in the Twenty-First Century
Commentary to
Unsettling Intimacies
Curious about race
Border deathwork
Forensic citizenship among families of missing migrants along the U.S.-Mexico border
Unclaimed and unclaimable deaths
From embracement to attachment
A boat’s afterlife
Beyond citizenship
Ephemeral Heritage
Technologies, infrastructures and migrations
To be human is to bury the enemy dead
Citizenship and grievability in migration
Harraga
Futures of Life and Futures of Reason
| Unique citing works | 25 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 3,57 |
| Citation span | 2019 - 2026 (8) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 23 |