TY - JOUR
T1 - Missing Migrants and the Politics of Naming
T2 - Names Without Bodies, Bodies Without Names
AU - Edkins, Jennifer
PY - 2016/6/1
Y1 - 2016/6/1
N2 - The essay asks what naming a body does, politically. It begins by examining practices of memory when people are missing after wars, terrorist attacks, or disappearances: when we have names without bodies. It then turns to cases of migrant bodies: bodies displaced from their established location, without documentation or recognition by governments. When those who are already missing in this way meet their deaths, they become unidentified decedents or bodies without names: undocumented dead who are doubly disappeared. The responses to these bodies reveal a tension between the care and concern they arouse and the exclusionary politics they reflect.
AB - The essay asks what naming a body does, politically. It begins by examining practices of memory when people are missing after wars, terrorist attacks, or disappearances: when we have names without bodies. It then turns to cases of migrant bodies: bodies displaced from their established location, without documentation or recognition by governments. When those who are already missing in this way meet their deaths, they become unidentified decedents or bodies without names: undocumented dead who are doubly disappeared. The responses to these bodies reveal a tension between the care and concern they arouse and the exclusionary politics they reflect.
UR - http://hdl.handle.net/2160/43829
M3 - Article
SN - 0037-783X
VL - 83
SP - 359
EP - 389
JO - Social Research: An International Quarterly
JF - Social Research: An International Quarterly
IS - 2
ER -