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DESCRIPTION:This is an in-person event with a virtual option. To join the Z
 oom Webinar\, please register here. \n\nOn any given day\, the remains of c
 ountless deceased migrants are shipped around the world to be buried in anc
 estral soils. Others are laid to rest in countries of settlement\, sometime
 s in cemeteries established for religious and ethnic minorities\, where ava
 ilable. For immigrants and their descendants\, perennial questions about th
 e meaning of home and homeland take on a particular gravitas in death. When
  the boundaries of a nation and its members are contested\, burial decision
 s are political acts. Building on multi-sited fieldwork in Berlin and Istan
 bul – where the author worked as an undertaker – Dying Abroad offers a movi
 ng and powerful account of migrants' end-of-life dilemmas\, vividly illustr
 ating how they are connected to ongoing political struggles over the stakes
  of citizenship\, belonging\, and collective identity in contemporary Europ
 e.\n\nAbout the speaker:\n\nDr. Osman Balkan is Associate Director and Prog
 ram Director of Curriculum\, Experiential Learning\, and Innovation at the 
 Huntsman Program in International Studies & Business. He is also an Adjunct
  Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science and a Senior Fe
 llow at the Lauder Institute of Management & International Studies.\n\nBalk
 an’s research and teaching focus on the politics of global migration\, race
  and ethnicity\, identity and inequality\, political violence\, and collect
 ive memory with a transregional concentration on Western Europe and the Mid
 dle East. He is the author of Dying Abroad: The Political Afterlives of Mig
 ration in Europe (Cambridge University Press\, 2023)\, which was published 
 as part of the LSE International Studies Series. \n\nBalkan is co-founder o
 f the American Political Science Association’s “Political Ethnography Worki
 ng Group\,” and serves as an elected member of the Executive Council of APS
 A’s “Migration & Citizenship” Section. Prior to his current appointment at 
 Penn\, he held faculty positions at Cornell University and Swarthmore Colle
 ge and served as Resident Director of the U.S. State Department’s Critical 
 Languages Scholarship Program in Istanbul and Izmir\, Turkey.\n\nFree and o
 pen to the public.\n\n\n\nSponsored by the Inter-University Committee on In
 ternational Migration\nFor more information or accessibility accommodations
  please contact svanmell@mit.edu.\n\nThe Inter-University Committee on Inte
 rnational Migration\nSince its establishment in 1974\, the Inter-University
  Committee on International Migration has been a focal point for migration 
 and refugee studies at member institutions\, which include Boston Universit
 y\, Brandeis University\, The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy\, Harvar
 d University\, MIT\, Tufts University\, and Wellesley College. The committe
 e is chaired by MIT as a program of the Center for International Studies (C
 IS).\n\nMigration Seminar Series\nDuring each academic year\, the Committee
  sponsors a seminar series on international migration\, The Myron Weiner Se
 minar Series on International Migration\, held at MIT's Center for Internat
 ional Studies. The seminars explore factors affecting international populat
 ion movements and their impact upon sending and receiving countries and rel
 ations among them.\n\nSign up for Migration emails to get notified about up
 coming events.
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SUMMARY:Dying Abroad: The Political Afterlives of Migration in Europe
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