Border Deaths : Causes Dynamics and Consequences of Migration related Mortality Frontmatter Table of Contents Acknowledgements Preface: The Increasing Focus on Border Deaths Cuttitta Paolo Introduction: A State of the Art Exposition on Border Deaths Last Tamara 1. Various Actors: The Border Death Regime Cuttitta Paolo Häberlein Jana Pallister Wilkins Polly 2. Mortality and Border Deaths Data Dearden Kate Last Tamara Spencer Craig 3. Representations of Border Deaths and the Making and Unmaking of Borders Sinatti Giulia Vos Renske 4. Engaging Bodies as Matters of Care Mcharek Amade Black Julia 5. Mourning Missing Migrants Mirto Giorgia Robins Simon Horsti Karina Prickett Pamela J. Verduzco Deborah Ruiz Toom Victor 6. Enforced Disappearances and Border Deaths Along the Migrant Trail Distretti Emilio 7. Understanding the Causes of Border Deaths Gombeer Kristof Ulusoy Orçun Basilien Gainche Marie Laure 8. Moving forward Afterword: From the Iron Curtain to Lampedusa Dijstelbloem Huub Horn Carolyn Jarvis Catriona Afterword: From the Iron Curtain to Lampedusa Spijkerboer Thomas Index Border deaths are a result of dynamics involving diverse actors and can be interpreted and represented in various ways. Critical voices from civil society (including academia) hold states responsible for making safe journeys impossible for large parts of the world population. Meanwhile policy makers argue that border deaths demonstrate the need for restrictive border policies. Statistics are widely (mis)used to support different readings of border deaths. However the way data is collected analysed and disseminated remains largely unquestioned. Similarly little is known about how bodies are treated and about the different ways in which the dead also including the missing and the unidentified are mourned by familiars and strangers. New concepts and perspectives contribute to highlighting the political nature of border deaths and finding ways to move forward. The chapters of this collection co authored by researchers and practitioners provide the first interdisciplinary overview of this contested field