Can the subaltern feel? An ethnography of migration, subalternity, and emotion

Drawing on biographical and migratory experiences gathered from Chinese marriage-migrants in Taiwan, this paper investigates the link between migration, subalternity emotion. We examine how emotions are socially, temporarily situationally constructed by migrant women, positioned a condition of vulnerability during migration. Conceptually, we advance that can be turned into resources, practices competences sustain migrants' social, economic cultural positioning society arrival. Through identification three empirically-rooted states – imaginative, implosive mutual claim that, context social contempt, familial exclusion marginalisation, individual collective performance contributes to ‘undo’ subalternity. Such purposely experimental incomplete. Whilst they as temporary mutable women's emotional practices, proposes could serve methodological analytical tool for future research migration