Abstract
One of my earliest childhood memories is that my father cries. He had heard on the radio news that a Czechoslovakian couple had crossed the border to Austria hidden in a truck. Just before the border, their baby had started to cry. By muffling the sound of their baby, they had killed it.
I could call what I remember ‘the facts’. They seem pretty straightforward.But what do we make of these facts? The immediate cause of death of the baby seems clear, but does causality stop there? Do we include the decision of the parents to make a perilous journey...
I could call what I remember ‘the facts’. They seem pretty straightforward.But what do we make of these facts? The immediate cause of death of the baby seems clear, but does causality stop there? Do we include the decision of the parents to make a perilous journey...
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Border Deaths |
| Subtitle of host publication | Causes, Dynamics and Consequences of Migration-related Mortality |
| Editors | Tamara Last, Paolo Cuttitta |
| Place of Publication | Amsterdam |
| Publisher | Amsterdam University Press |
| Pages | 163-169 |
| Number of pages | 7 |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 9789048550203 |
| ISBN (Print) | 9789463722322 |
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| Publication status | Published - Dec 2019 |
