This publication presents insights into the emotional dimensions of human mobility. Drawing on findings and theoretical discussions in anthropology, sociology, cultural stories, philosophy, linguistics, migration experiences, human geography and political technological know-how, the authors provide interdisciplinary views on a hugely topical debate, asking how 'emotions' could be conceptualised as a device to discover human mobility.

Emotions and Human Mobility investigates how emotional tactics are formed through migration, and vice versa. To what quantity are people’s emotions approximately migration inspired by way of structural chances and constraints akin to immigration guidelines or monetary inequality? How do migrants have interaction emotionally with the folks they meet within the receiving nations, and the way do they connect to new atmosphere? How do they have interaction with 'the locals', with migrants from different nations, and with migrants from their very own native land? How do they remain in contact with absent relatives? the quantity makes a speciality of particular situations of migration inside Europe, intercontinental mobility, and diasporic dynamics.

Critically attractive with the affective flip within the examine of migration, Emotions and Human Mobility can be hugely correct to students enthusiastic about present theoretical debates on human mobility. offering grounded ethnographic case stories that express how concept arises from concrete ancient instances, the publication can also be hugely available to scholars of classes on globalisation, migration, transnationalism and emotion.

This booklet was once initially released as a different factor of the Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies.