Emotional Landscapes - Love, Gender, and Migration (Paperback)

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.   Affecting and perceptive, Emotional Landscapes moves from war and transnational families to gender and citizenship to explore the crossroads of migration and the history of emotion.   Contributors: María Bjerg, Marcelo J. Borges, Sonia Cancian, Tyler Carrington, Margarita Dounia, Alexander Freund, Donna R. Gabaccia, A. James Hammerton, Mirjam Milhar�i� Hladnik, Emily Pope-Obeda, Linda Reeder, Roberta Ricucci, Suzanne M. Sinke, and Elizabeth Zanoni

General

Imprint:	University of Illinois Press
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Studies of World Migrations
Release date:	2021
First published:	2020
Editors:	Marcelo J Borges • Sonia Cancian • Linda Reeder
Epilogue by:	Donna R. Gabaccia
Contributors:	María Bjerg • Marcelo J Borges • Sonia Cancian • Tyler Carrington • Margarita Dounia • Alexander Freund
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 28mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	296
ISBN-13:	978-0-252-08539-0
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > General Books > Humanities > History > General Books > History > General
LSN:	0-252-08539-6
Barcode:	9780252085390

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