Book contents
- Dying Abroad
- LSE International Studies
- Dying Abroad
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1 Islamic Funeral Funds and the Moral Economy of Repatriation
- 2 Muslim Undertakers and the Bureaucracy of Death
- 3 Memory and Identity in Diaspora Cemeteries
- 4 Burial and Belonging
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index
1 - Islamic Funeral Funds and the Moral Economy of Repatriation
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 30 March 2023
- Dying Abroad
- LSE International Studies
- Dying Abroad
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1 Islamic Funeral Funds and the Moral Economy of Repatriation
- 2 Muslim Undertakers and the Bureaucracy of Death
- 3 Memory and Identity in Diaspora Cemeteries
- 4 Burial and Belonging
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
This chapter examines the work of the two largest and most important Islamic funeral funds in Europe, whose combined membership is nearly 400,000. Administered by longstanding and well-established Turkish Islamic associations, DITIB and IGMG, these funds first emerged in Western Europe in the 1990s with the aging of the first generation of Muslim immigrants in Western Europe and the growing need for culturally and religiously appropriate funerary services. Drawing on interviews with fund administrators and close readings of primary sources such as promotional literature and membership contracts, this chapter elucidates the strategies through which DITIBs and IGMGs funeral funds institutionalize, incentivize, and justify posthumous repatriation for burial.
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- Dying AbroadThe Political Afterlives of Migration in Europe, pp. 52 - 83Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2023