Immigrant melancholy is constitutive of the migrant experience itself

Evidence

Losing family is a common aspect of immigrant life. The matter-of-fact melancholy of the migrant expresses how loss and mourning are constituted as part of the experience of movement and feeling out of place (Ahmed 2004; Cheng 2001; Eng and Kazanjian 2003). — Junaid Rana, Terrifying Muslims, 881

Categorization

• DEFINE: Frames ‘matter-of-fact melancholy of the migrant’ as a specific analytic concept in the diaspora-studies literature.