Repatriationscapes: death and repatriation of human remains among African diaspora. A study into selected cases in London (UK)

研究背景大多数当代研究死亡，丧亲之痛，悲伤和损失已经接近的主题，从不同的西方和欧洲中心的观点。非洲中心主义观点被忽视。因此，在现有的文献中存在知识空白，在英国少数民族移民人口中的死亡问题上存在一些模糊性。我的博士项目旨在探索英国非洲侨民中的死亡和人类遗骸遣返，以及它如何在移民背景下被框定。这个项目遵循了我的硕士论文，将人类遗骸的遣返作为南威尔士纽波特冈比亚社区文化归属的一个方面。研究结果于2020年9月初在约克大学举行的死亡与文化111会议上发表。遣返景观是一个理论术语，我用来指研究身体遣返回国过程的框架。该框架假定，移徙背景使一个棱镜永久化，通过这个棱镜，概念观点相互交织，但在跨界的地方也相互分离。在英国的非洲侨民的移民背景是多方面的和复杂的。因此，我认为移民与关注较少的法律的地位的参与者。我的核心主张是，身体遣返是一个多层次的形式的仪式设置在“的Rendy过程”（特纳，1969年），间接地，在葬礼仪式的通过。我的项目侧重于个案中的集体进入最近的死亡。散居各地的非洲人适用一种“特定的参照系”，这种参照系源于他们个人和集体对死亡的概念性看法，尽管他们的情况各不相同。选定的案例将被用来描述更广泛的遣返前景。然而，非洲散居社区不能被同质化。目标1.研究当代非洲移民死亡与遗骸遣返的社会学叙事，以确定其在移民背景下的框架.从不同的角度来理解可能决定英国非洲侨民悲伤时安慰倾向的因素。目标1.确定在英国的非洲侨民是如何谈判死亡的，与他们的原籍国是如何处理死亡的形成对比。将遗体遣返如何代表失去亲人的散居者、死者以及死者在母国的关系置于情境中。为了证明如何从不同的角度死亡和遣返scapes的概念理解可以挑战的趋势，同质化的非洲侨民在英国。应用程序和benefitsMy研究并列的一些概念的作用，多文化结构中塑造的社会和文化态度在一个占主导地位的话语死亡和丧亲之痛。这将有助于形成关于全球移徙问题的多学科文献，这可能会对非洲侨民的同质化提出挑战。参与者将阐明他们的相互联系如何超越遣返场景中的假设障碍，以重申他们的身份和文化归属。困难的语言训练：死亡仪式更有可能在原住民国家用部落语言进行。我将需要培训，以提高我的基本斯瓦希里语实地工作在坦桑尼亚。海外实地工作：身体遣返分散的研究地点，以母国。我希望到海外去进行实地考察。海外机构访问我希望能进行海外机构访问，建立联系，为我与其他死亡学者的合作研究传播创造平台。

Research Context Most contemporary studies on death, bereavement, grief, and loss have approached the topics from diverse Western and Eurocentric perspectives. Afrocentric perspectives have been ignored. As a result, there is a knowledge gap in the existing literature creating some ambiguity on death matters among minority migrant populations in the UK.My PhD project is designed to explore death and repatriation of human remains among African diaspora in the UK and how it is framed within the migration context. This project follows my MSc thesis into the repatriation of human remains as aspect of cultural belonging among the Gambian community in Newport South Wales. The findings were presented in a paper at the Death and Culture 111 conference at the University of York early September 2020. Repatriationscapes is a theoretical term I use to refer to the framework for studying the process of body repatriation to the home country. The framework assumes that the migration context perpetuates a prism through which conceptual perspectives are interwoven but also separated in places across borders. The migration context of African diaspora in the UK is multi-dimensional and complex. Therefore, I consider migration with less focus on legal status of the participants.My core claim is that body repatriation is a multi-layered form of ritual set in 'The Ritual Process'(Turner, 1969), descriptively, within the funerary rites of passage. My project focuses on individual cases in the collective into the recent dead. The African diaspora apply a "specific frame of reference" emanating from their conceptual perception of death both individually and collectively despite their diversity. Selected cases will be used to describe wider perspectives in repatriationscapes. However, African diasporic communities cannot be homogenized. Aims1. To investigate the contemporary sociological narratives on death and repatriation of human remains among African diaspora to establish how it is framed within migration context.2. To understand the factors that may determine consolation trends during grief among African diaspora in the UK within diverse perspectives. Objectives1. To establish how death is negotiated among African diaspora in the UK in contrast with how death is dealt within their countries of origin.2. To contextualize how body repatriation represents the bereaved diaspora, the deceased, and the relations of the deceased in the home country.3. To demonstrate how the conceptual understanding of death and repatriationscapes from diverse perspectives can challenge the tendencies of homogenization of African diaspora in the UK.Applications and benefitsMy study juxtaposes some concepts on the role of multi-cultural structures in shaping social and cultural attitudes within a dominant discourse in death and bereavement. This will contribute towards multi-disciplinary literature on global migration which might challenge homogenization of African diaspora. Participants will articulate how their interconnectedness transcends the assumed barriers in repatriationscapes to reiterate their identity and cultural belonging. Also, prompting academic interest into transnational cross-border scholarship in repatriationscapes.Difficult Language Training: Death rituals are more likely to be set and performed in tribal languages in the native countries. I will need training to improve my basic Kiswahili language for field work in Tanzania.Overseas Fieldwork: Body repatriation spreads the location of study over to the home country. I hope to travel overseas to conduct field work. The UK diaspora associations will offer guidance through consultation and networking.Overseas Institutional VisitsI hope to undertake overseas institutional visits for networking, creating platform for my research dissemination in collaboration with other death scholars.