Emotional Landscapes : love, gender, and migration / Marcelo J. Borges, Sonia Cancian, Linda Reeder (editors).

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Borges, Marcelo J., 1965- editor.

Reeder, Linda, editor.

Cancian, Sonia, 1965- editor.

Series:

Studies of World Migrations

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Emigration and immigration--Psychological aspects.

Emigration and immigration.

Love--Social aspects.

Love.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 online resource)

Place of Publication:

Urbana, Illinois : University of Illinois Press, [2021]

Summary:

"Love and its attendant emotions not only spur migration--they forge our response to the people who leave their homes in search of new lives. Emotional Landscapes looks at the power of love, and the words we use to express it, to explore the immigration experience. The authors focus on intimate emotional language and how languages of love shape the ways human beings migrate but also create meaning for migrants, their families, and their societies. Looking at sources ranging from letters of Portuguese immigrants in the 1880s to tweets passed among immigrant families in today's Italy, the essays explore the sentimental, sexual, and political meanings of love. The authors also look at how immigrants and those around them use love to justify separation and loss, and how love influences us to privilege certain immigrants--wives, children, lovers, refugees--over others"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

What's Love Got to Do with It? Language of Transnational Affect in the Letters of Portuguese Migrants

"The Letter Said That My Wife Had Died": Bigamy in Argentina in the Era of Mass Migration

"People Cannot Live on Love Alone": Negotiating Love, Gender Roles, and Family Care between Slovenia and Egypt

. Love, Mobility, and Fate in Turn-of-the-Century Berlin

Brotherly Love: The Forging of an Italian-Argentine Brotherhood in Argentina, 1880-1920

"Let Them Deport Me, I Will Come Back to Him Again": Romance, Affective Relations, and the US Deportation Regime, 1919-1935

The Emotions of War: Italian Emigrant Soldiers and Love of Country

Maintaining Relationships and Creating Epistolary Personae: (Not) Articulating Emotions in the Letters of a Viennese Family of the Mid-Twentieth Century

Love at the Threshold of War and Migration: A War Orphan's Story

Emotional Rhetoric and Sexualized Livelihood: Marriage and Transatlantic Migration in Postwar Germany

"When I Came to Canada, All I Did Was Cry": Emotions and Migration of Greek Women in Postwar Montreal

Stories of Love and Marriage in the Modern British Diaspora: Themes of Change and Continuity

"I Can Express My Feelings with Just a Tweet": Language, Emotion, and the Digital Divide among Immigrant Families in Italy

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-252-05237-4

OCLC:

1237096934