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Survival and Witness at Europe''s Border focuses on one of the most mediatized migrant disasters in Europe. On October 3, 2013, an overcrowded fishing boat carrying Eritrean refugees caught fire near Lampedusa, Italy, where 368 people died. Karina Horsti shows with empathy and passion how this disaster produced a kaleidoscope of afterlives that continue to assume different forms depending on the position of the witness or survivors.

Pasts and futures intersect in the present when people who were touched by the disaster engage with its memory and politics. Horsti underscores how the perspective of survival can envision a way forward from a horrific unsustainable present.

Survival and Witness at Europe''s Border develops the concept of survival to rethink border deaths beyond the structures and processes that produce the murderous border and constitute the focus of critical migration studies. It demonstrates how the process of survival transfo

Table of Contents

Introduction
1. Words
2. Images
3. Enumeration, Naming, Photos
4. Adopting the Dead
5. Memorial Interventions
6. Memory Politics
7. Survivor Citizenship
8. Survival
9. Surviving the Death of Another
Epilogue: Kebrat's Story

Survival and Witness at Europes Border

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      Publisher Cornell University Press
      Published 15 September 2023
      ISBN-13 9781501771408
      978-1501771408
      ISBN-10 150177140X
      Also in:
      Earth Sciences, Geography & Environment Human geography Migration, immigration and emigration

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      Survival and Witness at Europe''s Border focuses on one of the most mediatized migrant disasters in Europe. On October 3, 2013, an overcrowded fishing boat carrying Eritrean refugees caught fire near Lampedusa, Italy, where 368 people died. Karina Horsti shows with empathy and passion how this disaster produced a kaleidoscope of afterlives that continue to assume different forms depending on the position of the witness or survivors.

      Pasts and futures intersect in the present when people who were touched by the disaster engage with its memory and politics. Horsti underscores how the perspective of survival can envision a way forward from a horrific unsustainable present.

      Survival and Witness at Europe''s Border develops the concept of survival to rethink border deaths beyond the structures and processes that produce the murderous border and constitute the focus of critical migration studies. It demonstrates how the process of survival transfo

      Table of Contents

      Introduction
      1. Words
      2. Images
      3. Enumeration, Naming, Photos
      4. Adopting the Dead
      5. Memorial Interventions
      6. Memory Politics
      7. Survivor Citizenship
      8. Survival
      9. Surviving the Death of Another
      Epilogue: Kebrat's Story

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