Haciendo de Tripas el Corazón/Plucking Up Courage: Migration, Family Internal Conflict, and Gender in Veronica’s Story

Hilary Parsons Dick ()
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Hilary Parsons Dick: Department of Anthropology, University of Pennsylvania, USA

Migration Letters, 2006, vol. 3, issue 1, 67-75

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 mi-grant: 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.

Keywords: Mexico-US migration; discourse analysis; emotion; family internal conflict; gender (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2006
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