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Emotional Narratives Towards Migration and Their Dehumanizing/Empowering Potential in Host Societies
Emotional Narratives Towards Migration and Their Dehumanizing/Empowering Potential in Host Societies
Abstract Submissions Closed
Friday, 26 February 2021: 16:00-17:30
Location:
WG08 Society and Emotions (host committee)
Language: Spanish and English
Session Type: Oral
Current discourses around migration as a crisis embody the hegemony of discourse in terms of Foucault´s will to truth. Dehumanizing narratives clearly impact not only political discourses but public policies and legal frameworks for the protection and control of migrants around the world. Politicization of emotions should not only be seen as part of political agendas, since it highlights the relevance of emotions for settlement processes (Boccagni P & Baldassar, L. 2015). At the same time, integration processes of immigrants in host societies are strongly related to the role emotions play in their self narratives as outsiders. Acknowledging that emotions have a narrative structure and that narratives include an emotional content (Kleres, 2010), this session welcomes papers addressing the diversity of emotional experiences of immigrants and/or host societies around the world.
Some questions that could guide reflection are:
- How do socially portrayed images and discourses of immigrants affect the experiences of newcomers and natives in host societies?
- How do emotions such as trust and compassion coexist with fear, anxiety and anger in receiving societies?
- Could the self reflexivity of immigrants’ emotional experiences lead to processes of empowerment even in contexts of overt hostility?
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