Migrant Hospitalities in the Mediterranean

This open access book applies insights from the anthropology of hospitality to illuminate ethnographic accounts of migrant reception in various parts of the Mediterranean. The contributors ground the idea and practice of hospitality in concrete ethnographic settings and challenge how the casual usage of Derridean or Kantian notions of hospitality can blur the boundaries between social scales and between metaphor and practice. Host-guest relations are multiplied through pregnancy and childbirth, and new forms of hospitality emerge with the need to offer mortuary practices for dead strangers, helping to illuminate the spatial and scalar dimensions of morality and politics in Mediterranean migrant reception.

This book is open access, which means that you have free and unlimited access The first book to systematically apply the insights of the anthropology of hospitality to Mediterranean host-guest relations in the context of migration Discusses case studies of pregnancy and childbirth, death and burial Makes contributions to anthropology (of hospitality, migration, birth and death) and migration studies, especially in terms of the insights that a grounded, ethnographic approach can bring to migrant reception studies

Autorentext

Vanessa Grotti is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the Department of Cultural Heritage, University of Bologna, Italy.

Marc Brightman is Professor of Anthropology at the Department of Cultural Heritage, University of Bologna, Italy.

This project has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 638259.

Inhalt

1. Introduction: Mediterranean Migrant Hospitalities.- 2. Caring for Others, Managing Migrants: Local and Institutional Hospitality in Lampedusa (Italy).- 3. Guests and Hosts in an Athens Public Hospital: Hospitality as Lens for Analyzing Migrants' Health Care.- 4. Hosting the Dead: Forensics, Ritual and the Memorialization of Migrant Human Remains in Italy.- 5. Ritual and Ritualism in a Contested Sea: Scalar Distortions of Space and Time.