Monika Palmberger and Jelena Tošić (eds), Memories on the Move: Experiencing Mobility, Rethinking the Past, Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke, UK, 2017, 312 pp., hbk £88, ISBN 10: 1137575484

This book is a valuable addition to the growing number of mobilities studies. Combining memory and mobility in such detail provides exceptionally useful information on the situation of migrants and refugees. Its discussion of the concept of ‘home’ makes it invaluable for a wide readership. Of course, this is important in ongoing work with refugees and migrants but its discussion of ‘home’ has a much wider impact and is relevant to many of us working in aged care. The richness of the ethnographic accounts provides a detailed context of using memories to begin and continue living in new countries, and the focus on the process of building homes elsewhere teaches us more than the means of settling in a new country. I am reminded of settling into residential care. However, to focus on the book’s context, it is also a useful reminder of the value of knowing individual personal history and the process of working through such history, which is so useful for social workers, educationists, medical personnel and, in fact, anyone who is building a relationship with and for migrants and refugees. As other reviewers have said, Memories on the Move is a must-read for anthropologists, sociologists, historians and political scientists. The book is subdivided into three main parts. After the Introduction, which gives us the book outline and a discussion of definitions, the first chapter is ‘Memories on the Move – Experiencing Mobility, Rethinking the Past’; the second section is the ‘Mnemonic Dimensions of Exiles’, looking at memories of war and exile across time and place, war and displacement, commemorating identity in exile, among other things; and the third is ‘Legacies and Politics of Memory’, which incorporates several more interesting chapters. Now to some details of the book itself. The editors, Monika Palmberger and Jelena Tošic,́ are anthropologists from the University of Vienna and they have assembled a striking line-up of expertise of anthropologists whose research and publication histories support their inclusion in this volume. The Introduction is an interesting discussion of mobilities, requesting that the ‘interplay of movement and memory calls for closer inspection’. As the editors say,

The Introduction is an interesting discussion of mobilities, requesting that the 'interplay of movement and memory calls for closer inspection'. As the editors say, The different forms of lived and imagined (im)mobility with which the present volume engages include refugees remembering and 'recreating' in their settlements Ageing & Society , , -. © Cambridge University Press  This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution licence (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/./), which permits unrestricted re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.  or during return journeys to homes from which they were expelled. We show in this volume that rememberingas well as forgetting or even 'amnesia'is actually a constitutive part of movement. (p. ) These words represent the in-depth context of the people, and to quote a Maori saying, 'It is people, it is people, it is people'. We can see that the focus on individuals, their memories, mobilities and the process of recreation provides a richness of knowledge which is invaluable to many disciplines, and not only anthropology. However, one of anthropology's tasks, I believe, is to make visible how people live and feel. This book brings home to us how refugees and migrants live and feel. It is at times an incredibly hurtful book, highly sensitive with its data, and its focus on and ensuring the visibility of the enforced changing of 'home' and the re-establishment of home.
The chapter on 'A Past that Hurts' (Chapter ) is enough to show us that, as is the chapter on 'Long-distance Nationalism and the Politics of Memory'. Along with other chapters, the editors give us a rich and complex view of issues of mobility and remembering. Also Karen F. Olwig's chapter on 'Moving Memories and Memories of Moving: Some Afterthoughts', discusses four ethnographic analyses of ethno-religious communities, with their close association between the assertion of a particular past and the establishment and sustaining of a distinct community. She refers to the transnational community of Kurdish people in Iraqi Kurdistan and abroad, the Jewish-Polish disaspora, Palestinian refugees on the West Bank and Bangladeshi immigrants in Portugal. She quotes Natalie Alonso Rey's study of memory work (Chapter ) where some women display family photographs in their private homes, but others find the pain of being absent from the homeland so strong that they keep family photographs tucked away out of sight.
And there's more. Eastmond talks of an 'elderly couple' in their sixties, feeling little motivation to settle in Sweden, and they found the idea of dying far from home a painful one. They spent most days with their family, talking about the past, and seemed to make sense of the new environment by comparing itfoodstuffs, prices and so onto Bosnia; and they got themselves a garden and kept busy with flowers and vegetables. As Eastmond analyses it, they seek a sense of continuity by 'wrapping a cloak of familiarity around a new landscape; imagining a new surrounding through the memory of their homeland' (p. ). Eastmond concludes that this couple remained faithful to Tito's Yugoslavia, and its political project, and were silent about ethnic violence. The chapter is well worth reading for her analysis of memory and mobility: In exile, they engaged their memories of life at home before the war … their original home in Bosnia where they had spent most of their lives, became an idealized construct that helped them adjust to life in a new context. (p. ) This complex detail of memory and mobility is vivid, and sometimes it raises further questions. The exploration of the process by people enforced on the move remembering, and communicating and working with their memories  Reviews to create a sense of belonging elsewhere from their exilic homes is a fascinating, unputdown-able read.
And its relevance for this journal is acute. How do older people feel about moving from home to care? What are the intermediate stages, of say, treatment and assessment, before care is offered and accepted? The book in its methodology and its findings has much to offer us in aged care studies, as well as its insightful analyses of recreating home by refugees and migrants.
I can obviously strongly recommend this book as an invaluable source for a number of disciplines, and certainly invaluable in a consideration of aged care and the movement of older people, even within their own country. This new book by Tony Walter is a pithy, sociological exploration of death, dying and bereavement in the modern world. The author has been researching, teaching and writing about these topics for many decades and this book aims to bring together some key insights from this body of work. The book scampers through a whole range of different topics, from the function of funerals to deaths in a digital world, and the breadth of issues covered is impressive. Somewhat inevitably, given the brevity of the book and the number of topics explored within it, some depth is sacrificed for breadth. However, this is not simply an introductory book. In each chapter the author quickly engages with cutting-edge research and contemporary controversies and he also casts a critical eye on the issues that he explores. This is especially true in the chapters discussing the ways in which people mourn and the value of talking about death. Indeed, the critique of the latter issue is refreshing, recognising as it does the fact that although talking about our mortality is beneficial for many, it is not something that everyone should either be required to do or criticised for not doing. The concluding chapter, which identifies a new paradigm called 'pervasive death', also takes the reader beyond the introductory and raises a number of difficult and novel challenges.

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It is a little difficult to be sure at whom this book is targeted. The fact that it is so succinct and covers a great deal of ground, combined with the fact that each chapter finishes with a number of questions that look like they could be used as formative assessment essay questions, suggests that the primary audience is students or trainees; and I have no doubt that this book will be of use to these groups. However, although the book is relatively accessible and would clearly be helpful to those who need to learn about dying and grieving for an academic or professional purpose, there is plenty within it that should be of interest to more experienced researchers and practitioners. In particular, the discussion about social media and the  Reviews