Emotions on the move: Mapping the emergent field of emotion and migration

Affects of unease: mother–infant separation among professional Indonesian women working in Singapore

“…The 'tolerated ambivalence' of separation (Bohr and Whitfield 2011: 167) and the 'everyday ruptures' (Boehm et al 2011) described in families conditioned to migration over multiple generations appear insufficient to explain the scope of affect expressed through mothers' depictions of infant separation. For Boccagni and Baldassar (2015), emotional dimensions are inescapable complements of mobility; ambivalence is more complex than straightforward delineations created between 'home' and 'away'. Kwon (2015) lucidly highlights the waiting of families separated by transnational labour as a distinct kind of affective labour within the market economy.…”

Negotiating identities and emotional belonging: Shan in northern Thailand

“…These changes in emotional connections reflect both memory and current experience, occurring within and informing engagements with and experiences of specific places or spaces (Boccagni and Baldassar, 2015;Pile, 2010: 7;Tolia-Kelly, 2004a). Belonging can thus be viewed as emotional citizenship, a condition for migrants that is imbued with concerns relating to temporariness, (in)security and precariousness (Ho, 2009;Jackson, 2015a).…”

“…The experience of migration (as process and status) often leads to changes in emotional life through encounters with being more or less 'out of place' (Boccagni and Baldassar, 2015). These changes in emotional connections reflect both memory and current experience, occurring within and informing engagements with and experiences of specific places or spaces (Boccagni and Baldassar, 2015;Pile, 2010: 7;Tolia-Kelly, 2004a).…”

“…Emotional investments are integral to maintaining and reproducing these connections, and are continually adapted to the changing nature and strength of ties to the 'home' and 'host' spaces (Waite and Cook, 2011;Boccagni and Baldassar, 2015).…”

Mixed-sex in sport for development: a pragmatic and symbolic device. The case of touch rugby for forced migrants in Rome

“…Beyond their functional potential in terms of networking, integration and acculturation (Evans 2014), sport and other leisure activities can also contribute to meeting important emotional needs of migrants (Boccagni and Baldassar 2015) and fostering a sense of identity and belonging (Ratna 2014;Walseth 2006aWalseth , 2006b) by acting as 'culturally oriented means of survival and thriving in life if engaged in a constructive and meaningful way' (Stack and Iwasaki 2009). Moreover, the very access of migrants to sport and leisure can be regarded as a right of participation and considered a matter of social justice in itself (Aitchison 2007).…”