Grieving Immigrants: Toward a Critical Conception of Loss and Grief

• Author(s) / Creator(s)

  • Bayatrizi, Zohreh

• SSHRC IDG awarded 2023: Two years ago our team undertook a small “side” project exploring the experience of grief among the Iranian­Canadian community in Edmonton in the aftermath of the Ukrainian Flight 752 tragedy that took the life of 176 passengers, and affected the Edmonton community disproportionately. Many participants in the project felt a deep sense of identification with the victims to the point of vividly imagining being on the airplane, being hit by missiles and dying. They reported significant mental health impacts from this mediated experience of death. They also reported significant changes in their sense of ethno­national identity. We propose to undertake a study of four distinct recent immigrant groups that have experienced significant war and violence firsthand or vicariously 'back home': people of Iranian, Ukrainian, Syrian, and Afghan origins.

• Date created

  2023-01-02

• Subjects / Keywords

  • Insight Development Grant
  • IDG
  • SSHRC
  • Sociology
  • Grief
  • Immigration
  • Ethnicity
  • Emotions
  • Sociology of Death and Dying
  • Belonging
  • Identity
  • War and Violence
  • Decolonization
  • Disenfranchised Grief
  • 2013AD-2023AD
  • Canada
  • Iran
  • Ukraine
  • Syria
  • Afghanistan

• Type of Item

  Research Material

• DOI

  https://doi.org/10.7939/r3-xqnd-g648

• License

  ©️Bayatrizi, Zohreh. All rights reserved other than by permission. This document embargoed to those without UAlberta CCID until 2027.