Affective experience of migrant couples during the period of absence-waiting in the community of Caxuxi, Hidalgo, Mexico

Abstract

This work focuses on the emotional dimension of migration. This is a qualitative research with women couple’s migrants living in the community Caxuxi, municipality of San Salvador, Hidalgo. The aim was to learn from their own perspective the impact on emotions experienced during the absence-waiting who migrated. 27 informants were located and was performed at each depth interviews. The testimonies helped identify emotions and classified by the frequency indicated by the participants, were organized under two premises: sense of abandonment and feeling of progress. The results show that negative emotions have a greater presence in cutting the experience of migrants and couples seem to dominate the experience, and that predominate in the social imaginary and in the speeches of protection of own family or couple. They are analyzed in three dimensions: a) abandonment and progress, b) the body and suffering, and c) the permit, the commission and mental health; to place the materialization of biopower exerted by migration as a mechanism system on the people involved and at the same time everyday conditions including health-disease process.