I am overjoyed to have been accepted to present at the American Sociological Association 2022 conference, in the International Migration section, to take place 5-9 of August, in Los Angeles! This will be my first in-person conference since I started my #PhD. 😀😄😁 https://www.asanet.org/annual-meeting/2022-annual-meeting
I am looking forward to engaging in a discussion that touches on the role and place of #sociology of #emotions in and through migration analysis, stemming heavy from my analysis and experience in studying #Mexican migration, and insights from my #fieldwork with #deported migrant men in #Tijuana. I hope to argue that migration analysis would benefit from the #affective turn in social sciences. By reframing #migrancy as the (sensible) #embodiment of migration #experience, #emotions become a #structuring aspect of the #politics of migration experience.
My paper, entitled “At the heart of migrancy: The politics of emotions of Mexican male migration experience”:
This paper discusses the politics of emotions surrounding the many ways Mexican deported men, housed in temporary migrant shelters in border towns such as Tijuana, negotiate their sense of place, being and ideation of past, present and future within the experience of deportation alongside the role of emotions in narratives that shape the framing of migration issues. Tijuana is not only a historically consolidated gateway of migration flows between Mexico and the United States, but also a singular and prominent point of return for many deported Mexicans, the majority of whom are men, over the age of 18, and not originally from Tijuana. Mexican deported men make up the majority of the landscape between “temporary” migrant shelters and the streets of Tijuana, in the shadows of narratives that keep the spotlight on other migrant populations, notably Central Americans, Haitians, and currently Ukrainian refugees. Between refugees and in-transit migrants, Mexican deportees are frequently dismissed from attention, reasoned through a pervasive perception that they are “home”. Being “neither from here nor there”, this paper points to the ways that Mexican deportees negotiate their state of being in emotional narratives that seek to regain agency, attend to trauma, attest to a future and assert the present role narratives play in framing migration analysis and bring the heart into migrancy.
I will be giving my presentation on Sunday, August 7th 2022, during the roundtable session on Latinx (2pm to 3pm), as part of the International Migration roundtable sessions of the ASA conference.
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