Haciendo de Tripas el Corazón/Plucking Up Courage: Migration, Family Internal Conflict, and Gender in Veronica’s Story
Haciendo de Tripas el Corazón/Plucking Up Courage: Migration, Family Internal Conflict, and Gender in Veronica’s Story
Author(s): Hilary Parsons DickSubject(s): Gender Studies, Family and social welfare, Migration Studies
Published by: Transnational Press London
Keywords: Mexico-US migration; discourse analysis; emotion; family internal conflict; gender;
Summary/Abstract: This article considers how migrants conceptualize and negotiate the emotional conflicts that accompany decisions to migrate. Such conflicts are a regular feature of migrants’ experience, informing how they understand the act of and reasons for migrating. The article focuses on the life of one migrant: a woman I call “Veronica,” whom I met during research on migration between Uriangato, Guanajuato, Mexico and Chester County, Pennsylvania. I argue that the analysis of discourse offers a particularly illuminating window into how migrants conceptualize and negotiate emotional conflicts. I place this discussion in dialogue with the literature on family internal conflict and gender in migration.
Journal: Migration Letters
- Issue Year: 3/2006
- Issue No: 1
- Page Range: 67-75
- Page Count: 11
- Language: English