Death and mourning in times of Covid-19. The experience of Zimbabwean migrants in South Africa

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ID12097628
AutoresLorena Núñez Carrasco (University of the Witwatersrand), Lorena Núñez (0000-0002-1985-8088, University of the Witwatersrand, autor correspondente)
Ano2024
Volume49
Fascículo10
Páginas1316-1324
Data de publicação2024-10-30
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoDeath Studies (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0748-1187 • E-ISSN: 1091-7683
EditoraTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/07481187.2024.2420240
PMID39475486
OpenAlexW4403887182
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas3
Referências citadas33

The paper deals with the effects of the regulations and restrictions on the handling of corpses and funerals among Zimbabwean migrant families who lost relatives in South Africa during the COVID-19 epidemic in the years 2020 and 2021. Interviews were conducted with members of this migrant community. The interviews revealed a range of affective and material dimensions entangled in these multiple losses, highlighting therefore experiences of truncated grief. Restrictions on funerals and burials forced immobility on the living and their dead; on bereaved communities, themselves and their corpses are forms of biopower that multiplied losses among cross-border migrant communities. The loss of autonomy of communities around death rituals and burial places constitute realms where the materiality of death is revealed. I look at both the loss of human life and the emotional losses associated with the limitations imposed on the dead body under COVID-19

2019-20 coronavirus outbreak · Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19 · Geography · Outbreak · Pandemic · Pathology · Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2 · Socioeconomics · Sociology · Medicine · Migration and Labor Dynamics · Migration, Health and Trauma · Migration, Refugees, and Integration · Virology