Haciendo de Tripas el Corazón/Plucking Up Courage: Migration, Family Internal Conflict, and Gender in Veronica’s Story
This article considers how migrants conceptualize and negotiate the emotional conflicts that accompany decisions to migrate. Such conflicts are a regular feature of migrants’ experience, informing how they understand the act of and reasons for migrating. The article focuses on the life of one mi-grant: a woman I call “Veronica,” whom I met during research on migration between Uriangato, Guanajuato, Mexico and Chester County, Pennsylvania. I argue that the analysis of discourse offers a particularly illuminating window into how migrants conceptualize and negotiate emotional conflicts. I place this discussion in dialogue with the literature on family internal conflict and gender in migration.
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2006
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Authors: | DICK, HILARY PARSONS |
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Migration Letters. - Transnational Press London, UK, ISSN 1741-8992. - Vol. 3.2006, 1, p. 67-75
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Transnational Press London, UK |
Subject: | Mexico-US migration | discourse analysis | emotion | family internal conflict | gender |
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