Transnational Death - Saramo, Samira

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Résumé :
Transnational Death brings together eleven cutting-edge articles from the emerging field of transnational death studies. The collection highlights European, Asian, North American, and Middle Eastern perspectives, and reflects on people's changing experiences with death in the context of migration over time. The collection begins with a thematic assessment of transnational death studies, and then examines case studies, divided into Family, Community, and Commemoration sections. Together, the chapters provide new insights on issues including identity and belonging, community reciprocity, transnational communication, and spaces of mourning and commemoration. The collection is edited by Dr. Samira Saramo (University of Turku), Dr. Eerika Koskinen-Koivisto (University of Jyv?skyl?), and Professor of Ethnology Hanna Snellman (University of Helsinki).

Biographie:
Samira Saramo is an Academy of Finland Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Turku's John Morton Center for North American Studies. Saramo's interdisciplinary research focuses on ethnicity, gender, emotion, violence, place-making, and social movements in both historical and current contexts. Her research project, Death and Mourning in 'Finnish North America', explores Finnish immigrants' personal narrations and everyday experiences with death and mourning in the years 1880-1939. She has recently published 'I Have Such Sad News': Loss in Finnish North American Letters in European Journal of Life Writing (2018) and Lakes, Rock, Forest: Placing Finnish Canadian History in Journal of Finnish Studies (2018). Saramo holds a Ph.D. in History from York University (Canada).