Marcelo J. Borges is a professor of history at Dickinson College. He is the author of Chains of Gold: Portuguese Migration to Argentina in Transatlantic Perspective. Sonia Cancian is an assistant professor in the department of interdisciplinary studies at Zayed University in Dubai. She is the author of Families, Lovers, and Their Letters: Italian Postwar Migration to Canada. Linda Reeder is an associate professor of history and chair of women's and gender studies at the University of Missouri. She is the author of Widows in White: Migration and the Transformation of Rural Italian Women, Sicily, 1880–1920.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction by Marcelo J. Borges, Sonia Cancian, and Linda ReederChapter 1. What's Love Got to Do with It? Language of Transnational Affect in the Letters of Portuguese Migrants by Marcelo J. BorgesChapter 2. "The Letter Said That My Wife Had Died": Bigamy in Argentina in the Era of Mass Migration by María BjergChapter 3. "People Cannot Live on Love Alone": Negotiating Love, Gender Roles, and Family Care between Slovenia and Egypt by Mirjam Milharcic HladnikChapter 4. Love, Mobility, and Fate in Turn-of-the-Century Berlin by Tyler CarringtonChapter 5. Brotherly Love: The Forging of an Italian-Argentine Brotherhood in Argentina, 1880-1920 by Elizabeth ZanoniChapter 6. "Let Them Deport Me, I Will Come Back to Him Again": Romance, Affective Relations, and the US Deportation Regime, 1919-1935 by Emily Pope-ObedaChapter 7. The Emotions of War: Italian Emigrant Soldiers and Love of Country by Linda ReederChapter 8. Maintaining Relationships and Creating Epistolary Personae: (Not) Articulating Emotions in the Letters of a Viennese Family of the Mid-Twentieth Century by Suzanne M. SinkeChapter 9. Love at the Threshold of War and Migration: A War Orphan's Story by Sonia CancianChapter 10. Emotional Rhetoric and Sexualized Livelihood: Marriage and Transatlantic Migration in Postwar Germany by Alexander FreundChapter 11. "When I Came to Canada, All I Did Was Cry": Emotions and Migration of Greek Women in Postwar Montreal by Margarita DouniaChapter 12. Stories of Love and Marriage in the Modern British Diaspora: Themes of Change and Continuity by A. James HammertonChapter 13. "I Can Express My Feelings with Just a Tweet": Language, Emotion, and the Digital Divide among Immigrant Families in Italy by Roberta RicucciEpilogue by Donna R. GabacciaContributorsIndex

"The rich empirical case studies of this substantive volume are difficult to cover fully in a short review. They bring the sensitivity of the history of emotion to bear on love's complexity, historicity, and changing nature, as defined and shaped through gender and place." --Journal of Interdisciplinary History"A valuable insight into the multifaceted migration experience imbued with emotions. . . . Love, gender, and migration are interwoven in all the narratives. Love as a driving force of migration, its meaning, the main bond overcoming distance, and an affective underpinning of public discourse pursuing political interests." --Two Homelands"This is a fascinating collection, giving us access to the emotional experience of groups we have not yet seen from this angle and amplifying our understanding of a key emotion as well."--Peter Stearns, author of Shame: A Brief History