Emotional Ambiguity
Japanese Migrant Women in Mixed Families and their Life Transition
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3634780 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Naoko Maehara (Queen's University Belfast, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2010 |
| Volume | 36 |
| Issue | 6 |
| Pages | 953-966 |
| Publication date | 2010-07-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | New Community (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0047-9586 • E-ISSN: 1469-9451 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/13691831003643371 |
| OpenAlex | W1991581008 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 15 |
| References cited | 20 |
Through the narratives of Japanese migrant women in Ireland, this paper focuses on their perceptions of ‘home’ and their emotional processes in the context of their life transition. In order to explore the interactive and relational nature of their emotional processes, three questions are examined. How do migrant women manage their emotions in the process of constructing motherhood as their main social identity? How do their emotional orientations complement or conflict other emotion rules? In changing social and familial settings, how are their feelings navigated? The narratives of two Japanese mothers illustrate their contradictory, inconsistent and ambiguous emotional experiences which are created through physical mobility and transnational family relationships. Through changing social roles, obligations and expectations, they participate in different ‘feeling rules’ to frame the lived experiences in which their relationships with their new country and home place are renewed. Through changing their life course, they also experience ‘emotional resonance’ or ‘dissonance’ with others, which affects their sense of belonging/non-belonging in different places. The context of motherhood provides examples of such dynamics of multiple, interdependent processes in which subjectivities and feelings emerge
Ambiguity · Cognitive dissonance · Emotion work · Feeling · Geography · Interdependence · Narrative · Perception · Sociology · Emotional Labor in Professions · Gender Studies · Migration and Labor Dynamics · Migration, Refugees, and Integration · Psychology · Social Psychology
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Emotional transnationalism and emotional flows
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Gender and International Migration
Self, Identity, and Globalization in Times of Uncertainty
Migrants of Identity
Cross-Cultural Marriage
Mixed Emotions
The Managed Heart
Passions and Powers
Transnational Families and the Provision of Moral and Emotional Support
Recovering Emotion from Emotion Management
Navigating the Emotional Terrain of Families “Here” and “There
Translocal Subjectivities
Who Cares? Families and Feelings in Movement
Transnational Families and Aged Care
The Narrated Self
Reconceptualizing Family Work
Meaning and Feeling in the Anthropology of Emotions
Constructivist Models of Mind, Contemporary Psychoanalysis, and the Development of Culture Theory
On Crafting a Cultural Mind
Emotion Work, Feeling Rules, and Social Structure
| Unique citing works | 15 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2011 - 2026 (16) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 13 |