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Survival and witness at Europe's border : the afterlives of a disaster

Title
Survival and witness at Europe's border : the afterlives of a disaster / Karina Horsti.
Author
Horsti, Karina
Publication
  • Ithaca [New York] : Cornell University Press, 2023.
  • ©2023

Details

Description
ix, 268 pages : illustrations, map; 24 cm
Summary
"Through the analysis of representation and memorialization, this book examines the afterlives of a deadly migrant shipwreck in Italy in 2013 among different witnesses: Eritrean survivors, families of victims, Eritrean diaspora, rescuers and locals in Lampedusa and Sicily, and citizens across Europe"--
Subject
  • 2000-2099
  • Eritreans > Europe > Social conditions > 21st century
  • Shipwrecks > Mediterranean Sea > History > 21st century
  • Emigration and immigration > Social aspects
  • Shipwrecks
  • Lampedusa Island (Italy) > Emigration and immigration > Social aspects
  • Europe
  • Italy > Lampedusa Island
  • Mediterranean Sea
Genre/Form
History.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Words -- Images -- Enumeration, naming, photos -- Adopting the dead -- Memorial interventions -- Memory politics -- Survivor citizenship -- Survival -- Surviving the death of another -- Epilogue: Kebrat's story.
ISBN
  • 9781501771378
  • 150177137X
  • 9781501771408
  • 150177140X
  • 9781501771385 (canceled/invalid)
  • 9781501771392 (canceled/invalid)
LCCN
2022060673
OCLC
YBP 2022060673
Author
Horsti, Karina, author.
Title
Survival and witness at Europe's border : the afterlives of a disaster / Karina Horsti.
Publisher
Ithaca [New York] : Cornell University Press, 2023.
Copyright Date
©2023
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Chronological Term
2000-2099
Other Form:
Online version: Horsti, Karina. Survival and witness at Europe's border. Ithaca [New York] : Cornell University Press, 2023 9781501771385 (DLC) 2022060674
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