"Dying Abroad offers a sophisticated ethnographic account of how immigrant and minoritized communities navigate end-of-life decisions in countries where they face barriers to political inclusion and equal social standing"--

Osman Balkan is Associate Director of the Huntsman Program in International Studies and Business at the University of Pennsylvania. His research focuses on borders and migration, citizenship and identity, race and ethnicity, transnationalism, cultural memory, Islam, and necropolitics.

Introduction: death out of place; 1. Islamic funeral funds and the moral economy of repatriation; 2. Muslim undertakers and the bureaucracy of death; 3. Memory and identity in minority cemeteries; 4. Burial and belonging; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.