Identifying dead migrants: forensic care work and relational citizenship
Identifying dead migrants: forensic care work and relational citizenship
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识别死亡移民：法医护理工作和关系公民身份
作者：
A. M’charek;S. Casartelli
摘要 地中海已成为所谓移民危机中的一个标志性地点。数千具尸体被冲上欧洲南部的海滩。我们借鉴了在意大利各地收集的人种学材料，在这些地点，溺水移民的尸体由专业人员和志愿者照顾。我们认为，虽然照顾死者可以让他们被识别为人，但它也产生了超越正式公民身份的关系。我们引入法医护理工作的概念来分析身份识别实践，并展示它如何产生关系公民身份。我们跟踪尸体从被发现到检查和埋葬的整个过程。我们表明，这个过程涉及在这种特定的法医实践中不断的修补和试验，并认为照顾死者需要照顾法医基础设施。
ABSTRACT 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.