Emotional geographies and migration: memory and movement

This chapter draws in and on the wealth of scholarship on mobility and movement, in what has been termed an ‘age of migration’. With every migration/refugee ‘crisis’, questions arise about how and where migrants settle, integrate and encounter intolerance, and how place-based contingencies matter in that settlement and integration. Whether these migrations are forced or voluntary, understanding migration as a process, and one fraught with and wrapped up in a multitude of emotions and emotional encounters, is a crucial and timely intervention in this research agenda. In this chapter, we draw focus on how the emotional geographies of migration articulate in everyday settings, by homing in on the practices and contexts of migration as already experienced and felt by migrants.