Missing Migrants and the Politics of Naming
Names Without Bodies, Bodies Without Names
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4188947 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jenny Edkins (0000-0003-1477-0607, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2016 |
| Volume | 83 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 359-389 |
| Publication date | 2016-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Social research (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0037-783X • E-ISSN: 1944-768X |
| Publisher | Project MUSE (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1353/sor.2016.0034 |
| OpenAlex | W2528317501 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 11 |
| References cited | 19 |
The essay asks what naming a body does, politically. It begins by examining practices of memory when people are missing after wars, terrorist attacks, or disappearances: when we have names without bodies. It then turns to cases of migrant bodies: bodies displaced from their established location, without documentation or recognition by governments. When those who are already missing in this way meet their deaths, they become unidentified decedents or bodies without names: undocumented dead who are doubly disappeared. The responses to these bodies reveal a tension between the care and concern they arouse and the exclusionary politics they reflect
Criminology · Documentation · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Terrorism · Anthropological Studies and Insights · History · Law · Migration, Refugees, and Integration · Political Theology and Sovereignty
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Absent and present
The texture of memory
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Commemorations
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Trauma and the Memory of Politics
State Repression and the Labors of Memory
Holocaust lists and the Memorial Museum
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Peace Review
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Naming Names
| Unique citing works | 11 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,57 |
| Citation span | 2019 - 2026 (8) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 11 |