Emotions, immigration, and family in Argentina at the end of the 19th century
Keywords:
Emotions, Migration, Transnational families, Adultery and bigamyAbstract
Based on trial records of bigamy and adultery offenses, this article studies the relationship between spatial mobility and emotions. It analyses the transatlantic migration not only as a temporary separation of the family –linked to the expectation of reunion–, but as an experience marked by forgetfulness, abandonment, treason, and infidelity. Without denying the relevance of love, affection, estrangement, and longing for the loved ones, this article argues that distance also damaged the family bonds, and that time undermined the will, and consumed the energies necessary to feed the idea of reunion or return. In this new anatomy of relationships, anguish, rancor, rage, and pain emerged. Paradoxically, these emotions also could induce the migration and provoked the reunion.
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