AIBR http://www.aibr.org Registro AIBR, SSCI text/plain; charset=utf-8 TY - JOUR JO - ARIES, Anuario de Antropología Iberoamericana TI - MIGRATING THE DEAD: CEMETERIES AND CONTESTED BELONGING IN THE CHINESE DIASPORA VL - IS - 2019 PB - Asociación AIBR, Antropólogos Iberoamericanos en Red T2 - ARIES, Anuario de Antropología Iberoamericana PY - 2019 M1 - SN - 2530-7843 UR - https://aries.aibr.org/articulo/2019/20/709/migrating-the-dead-cemeteries-and-contested-belonging-in-the-chinese-diaspora DO - doi: AU - Sujin Eom A2 - A3 - A4 - A5 - A6 - A7 - SP - LA - Esp DA - 20/09/2019 KW - AB - Spanish: What is a grave? A consecrated space for the commemoration of the dead, a burial ground is often considered a symbol of well-maintained community. While “the tombs of the unknown soldiers” serve as a sacred reminder of a nation-state as an imagined community in the twentieth century, cemeteries inform us how the space of the dead has exploited the notion of community in drawing boundaries around who can claim the right to the space. At the same time, a burial ground can also be construed as sites of control and resistance in which the dominant strive to control by imposing meanings of what should remain sacred in urban space, whereas the subordinate resist such imposed meanings and definitions in order to make their own claims to the space. By focusing on such conflicts and tensions surrounding meanings of cemeteries, this paper examines litigations and negotiations swirling around Chinese cemeteries in South Korea during the Cold War years. In so doing, this paper investigates how burial grounds have become contested sites for landownership, identity and nationhood in modern cities. English: What is a grave? A consecrated space for the commemoration of the dead, a burial ground is often considered a symbol of well-maintained community. While “the tombs of the unknown soldiers” serve as a sacred reminder of a nation-state as an imagined community in the twentieth century, cemeteries inform us how the space of the dead has exploited the notion of community in drawing boundaries around who can claim the right to the space. At the same time, a burial ground can also be construed as sites of control and resistance in which the dominant strive to control by imposing meanings of what should remain sacred in urban space, whereas the subordinate resist such imposed meanings and definitions in order to make their own claims to the space. By focusing on such conflicts and tensions surrounding meanings of cemeteries, this paper examines litigations and negotiations swirling around Chinese cemeteries in South Korea during the Cold War years. In so doing, this paper investigates how burial grounds have become contested sites for landownership, identity and nationhood in modern cities. CR - Copyright; 2019 Asociación AIBR, Antropólogos Iberoamericanos en Red ER -