Conclusion

Abstract

Emotions in Transmigration: Transformation, Movement and Identity has investigated the intersection of migration narratives, emotion and identity. In doing so it has shown the gendered nature of migration, whatever form it takes, and has also shown that the experiences of migration cannot be understood completely without an analysis of gender. The experience of migration is an intensely emotive event in people’s lives, yet the study of migration has to date overlooked this aspect. We have attempted in this book to correct this oversight. Traditional models of migration have made gender peripheral to the analysis and have largely been defined in masculinist terms, but the reality is that women now occupy a significant role globally in the establishment of new ‘deterritorialized identities’ (Fortier, 2000) emerging from migration movements. In the process conceptions of ‘home’, ‘belonging’ and ‘memory’ have to be reconceptualized to address increasingly diversified and complex models of migration and of identity.