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Deseos y Dolores: Mapping Desire, Suffering, and (Dis)loyalty within Transnational Partnerships
This piece considers the deseos ‐‐ wants, desires, needs ‐‐ and dolores ‐‐ pain or sorrow ‐‐ of individuals in US‐Mexico transnational partnerships. For transnational Mexicans, “desire” manifests as diverse, even contradictory, expressions of emotion. Migration is intertwined with multiple desires w...
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Published in: | International migration 2011-12, Vol.49 (6), p.95-106 |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Summary: | This piece considers the deseos ‐‐ wants, desires, needs ‐‐ and dolores ‐‐ pain or sorrow ‐‐ of individuals in US‐Mexico transnational partnerships. For transnational Mexicans, “desire” manifests as diverse, even contradictory, expressions of emotion. Migration is intertwined with multiple desires within intimate relationships, but is also tied to suffering across borders. Conflicting articulations of deseos y dolores reveal gender politics as well as the broader socioeconomic inequalities that drive migration and result in the transborder movement that separates couples and family members in a transnational space. |
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ISSN: | 0020-7985 1468-2435 |
DOI: | 10.1111/j.1468-2435.2011.00707.x |