Emotions and Human Mobility: Ethnographies of Movement

This book provides insights into the emotional dimensions of human mobility. Drawing on findings and theoretical discussions in anthropology, sociology, cultural studies, philosophy, linguistics, migration studies, human geography and political science, the authors offer interdisciplinary perspectives on a highly topical debate, asking how 'emotions' can be conceptualised as a tool to explore human mobility.

Emotions and Human Mobility investigates how emotional processes are shaped by migration, and vice versa. To what extent are people's feelings about migration influenced by structural possibilities and constraints such as immigration policies or economic inequality? How do migrants interact emotionally with the people they meet in the receiving countries, and how do they attach to new surroundings? How do they interact with 'the locals', with migrants from other countries, and with migrants from their own homeland? How do they stay in touch with absent kin? The volume focuses on specific cases of migration within Europe, intercontinental mobility, and diasporic dynamics.

Critically engaging with the affective turn in the study of migration, Emotions and Human Mobility will be highly relevant to scholars involved in current theoretical debates on human mobility. Providing grounded ethnographic case studies that show how theory arises from concrete historical cases, the book is also highly accessible to students of courses on globalisation, migration, transnationalism and emotion.

This book was originally published as a special issue of the Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies.

1. Emotions and Human Mobility: Key Concerns Maruska Svasek 2. `These People Could Be Anyone': Fear, Contempt (and Empathy) in a British Immigration Removal Centre Alexandra Hall 3. `Unkind Cuts': Health Policy and Practice versus the Health and Emotional Well-Being of Asylum-Seekers and Refugees in Ireland Katy Radford 4. Sensuous Multiculturalism: Emotional Landscapes of Interethnic Living in Australian Suburbia Amanda Wise 5. Gossiping in the Polish Club: An emotional coexistence of `old' and `new' migrants Aleksandra Galasinska 6. Emotional Ambiguity: Japanese Migrant Women in Mixed Families and their Life Transition Naoko Maehara 7. The Hindi Film's Romance and Tibetan Notions of Harmony: Emotional Attachments and Personal Identity in the Tibetan Diaspora in India Timm Lau 8. The Politics of Hope and Disappointment: Ambivalence in the Post-1989 Homeland-Related Discourse Among Hungarians in Australia Petra Andit 9. Emotions, Emotives and Political Negotiations: Transforming Relationships in the Bohemian-Bavarian Border Area Maruska Svasek