Mourning the migrant dead in Europe: the role of community responses
Collective commemorations create a sense of community by publicly mourning the deaths of Europe’s unknown, unidentified and unmourned migrants, according to new research in the journal Citizenship Studies .Cultural Studies scholar Maurice Stierl describes how three different ‘collective commemorations,’ parts of three different ‘migration struggles,’ both grieve and protest the loss of human life at Europe’s borders. Key to Stierl’s observations is Judith Butler’s concept of