Yvonne Salt
Honorary Research Fellow (Geography)

Research

My doctoral research is about love and migration. Many people migrate because they fall in love and many decide to settle in countries other than their own for the same reason. As such the work is about love and its relation to (im)mobility. Using the narratives of British migrants and their partners, the research hopes to explore people's emotional experiences of love and migration, allowing for a consideration of what love and migration might mean for ordinary people. The research will allow for reflection on the ways that emotions, love and migration are enmeshed and add empirical research to discourses about perceived appropriate and inappropriate expressions of love in different cultural frameworks. My research will problematise how gender, ethnicity, age and other social factors intersect with ordinary people's experiences of love and will contribute to debates about how human emotions constitute place, in particular how love makes place and how place shapes the experience of love.