Emotional Geographies of Lost Homes and Fractured Bonds in Displacement
摘要
Frameworks for depicting African migration can, in the twenty-first century, be expanded beyond the conventional view of migration as driven by want, pain, and anguish. The complexification of the social system and the evolving, diversified traits of migrants before, during, and after migration reveal dimensions worthy of identification and analysis. This chapter, therefore, examines African migrants’ emotions across geographies and how intimacies are managed, shattered, or rebuilt during the migration journey. It examines the many faces of these occurrences, suggesting that while the prominent triggers of conflict and poverty might persist, a range of subtleties emerges, thereby shaping the condition of migrants and how they are habituated to live with, or to resolve, them. Added to this is the coverage of possibilities in the previously uncovered parts, in the evaluation and conceptualisation of migrants’ experiences, in a bid for fresh angles on the discourse of African migration.