While migrant stories have long been weighted with love, loss, anger, and bitterness, scholars have rarely considered how these emotional landscapes shaped personal and political understandings of mobility. Building on the work of scholars who have insisted that emotional expressions, like political or economic factors, are analytical categories, critical to understanding social, cultural, and political change, this anthology focuses attention on the ways in which emotions gendered migrations, constructing “emotional landscapes” that reconfigured spatial, cultural, and temporal networks linking individual migrants to a multiplicity of new communities. The essays in the anthology highlight the complicated ties linking emotion and gender in a mobile world, exploring the ways technology, capital, war, and state-building altered affective performances and ties. Combined, the contributions argue that the circulation of public and private languages of love became a constitutive element in the ways people understood and navigated migration.
The effects of robot facial emotional expressions and gender on child–robot interaction in a field study
