Presentation
Transnational Death, a collection of articles edited by Samira Saramo, Eerika Koskinen-Koivisto and Hanna Snellman, is a welcome reminder of the many lessons to be learned from the analysis of the more mundane, less spectacular realities of death in migration that have in recent years been overshadowed by the proliferating literature on border deaths. It is also noteworthy that the book does this across time and space, covering cases from the early twentieth century to the present day, from Los Angeles’ Koreatown to arctic Finland. The breadth and the interdisciplinary approach of Transnational Death count among its undeniable merits with the perspectives of ethnologists, historians and anthropologists neatly dialoguing with each other.