Uncertain Belongings: Absent Mourning, Burial, and Post-mortem Repatriations at the External Border of the EU in Spain
Uncertain Belongings: Absent Mourning, Burial, and Post-mortem Repatriations at the External Border of the EU in Spain
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不确定的财产：西班牙欧盟外部边境没有哀悼、埋葬和尸检遣返
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10.1080/07256868.2016.1141758
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发表时间：
2016
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1
通讯作者：
Gerhild Perl
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作者：
Gerhild Perl
自20世纪80年代中期以来，来自北非和撒哈拉以南国家的移民不定期地越过直布罗陀海峡，希望为自己和家人带来更美好的未来。在没有经验丰富的船长的情况下，乘坐装备简陋的小船，已经让无数越境者付出了生命的代价。在探讨死亡与归属的结合点时，我首先展开了一场关于尸体与死者之间神秘关系的讨论，并论证了身体存在对哀悼的重要性。其次，我展示了死去的越境者的匿名性和他们不确定的财产是如何产生、隐藏或重写的。在一个殡仪馆的故事之后，我第三次考察了死后的过境点。在描述身份识别过程中的权力关系时，我通过强调衣服等个人物品的构成意义来概述归属一词的模糊性，以恢复一个人的身份。反思不同行为者（包括研究人员）与死者之间的伦理关系，我的目标是更好地理解在西班牙海岸发现的死亡越境者的多重财产。
ABSTRACT Since the mid-1980s, migrants from North African and sub-Saharan countries have irregularly crossed the Strait of Gibraltar in the hope of a better future for themselves and their families. Travelling in small, poorly equipped boats without experienced captains has cost the lives of myriad border-crossers. Exploring the junction of death and belonging, I first open a discussion about the enigmatic relation between a dead body and a dead person and argue for the importance of the physical presence of the body for mourning. Second, I show how the anonymity of dead border-crossers and their uncertain belongings are generated, concealed, or rewritten. Following the story of an undertaker, I third examine post-mortem border crossings. Depicting the power relations within identification processes, I outline the ambiguity of the term belonging by emphasising the constitutive significance of personal belongings such as clothes to restore a person's identity. Reflecting on the ethical relationships which different actors (including the researcher) undertake with the deceased, I aim at gaining a better understanding of the multiple belongings of dead border-crossers found on Spanish shores.