Emotions in Transmigration—Transformation, Movement and Identity

This book explores the intersection of emotions and migration in a number of case studies from across the United States, Europe and Southeast Asia, including the transmigration of female domestic workers, female workers in the service industries, transmigrant marriages, transmigrant workers in the entertainment industry and asylum seekers and refugees who have experienced violence. Migration is an intensely emotive event in people's everyday lives, yet the study of migration has, to date, overlooked this aspect - this book fills that gap. It brings the study of emotions together with the study of migration for the first time. The interrelationship of geographical and emotional spaces of nation, identity and emotions are examined as they intersect in a complex framing of a raft of emotions characterized by trauma, grief, guilt, love, violence and rage. Emotions in Transmigration provides theoretical analysis and empirical examples of the intersection of emotions and transmigration in relation to movement, transformation and identity in the context of the United States, Europe and Southeast Asia.

ANN BROOKS is a Visiting Scholar in the Department of Sociology at the University of California, Berkeley, USA from 2011-2012. Her latest books include Social Theory in Contemporary Asia and Gender, Emotions and Labour Markets. She is currently writing a co-edited book entitled Passion, Power and Norbert Elias: Emotional Styles and Historical Change and an undergraduate text book entitled Popular Culture, Hybridity and Identity.
RUTH SIMPSON is Professor Management at Brunel Business School, UK. She has published widely in the area of gender and management education, gender and emotions and gender and careers. Recent books include Men in Caring Occupations: Doing Gender Differently; Gendering Emotions in Organizations; Revealing and Concealing Gender in Organizations and Dirty Work: Concepts and Identities.