BOOKS - Mediated Emotions of Migration: Reclaiming Affect for Agency
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Mediated Emotions of Migration: Reclaiming Affect for Agency
Author: Sukhmani Khorana
Year: December 22, 2022
Format: PDF
File size: PDF 10 MB
Language: English
Year: December 22, 2022
Format: PDF
File size: PDF 10 MB
Language: English
This book unpacks how emotions and affect are key conceptual lenses for understanding contemporary processes and discourses around migration. Drawing on empirical research, grassroots projects with migrants and refugees, and mediated stories of migration and asylum-seeking from the Global North, the book sheds light on the affects of empathy, aspiration and belonging to reveal how they can be harnessed as public emotions of positive collective change. In the face of increasing precariousness and the wake of intersecting global crises, Khorana calls for uncovering the potential of these affects in order to build new forms of care and solidarities across differences.