Dying away from home. Argentina’s massive migration identity marks

Abstract

We consider that the funerary matter is a relatively autonomous study field where the struggles taken up in social spaces become evident: a place where migrant groups also had to conquer and negotiate. Within these identity spaces, we have identified three main groups: municipal cemeteries, with mausoleums of Mutual Aid Associations (ASM), the cemeteries of the so-called "dissidents"–corresponding to the Protestant currents—and the Israeli cemeteries. The present work focuses on the first group through more than one hundred and sixty cemeteries studied from the main provinces that received European migration (1880-1914), with the objective of considering the symbolic and spatial aspects that were developed during that period.