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Volume 02, Issue 04

Published on: April 2026

EMOTIONAL GEOGRAPHIES OF BELONGING: LONELINESS, ALIENATION, AND IDENTITY IN MIGRANT WOMEN’S LITERATURE

Muskan Awasthi

Department of English, Jaipur, India Corresponding

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This paper explores the emotional geographies of belonging in migrant women’s literature. The paper focuses on loneliness, alienation and identity formation. Most migrant discourses overlook the affective dimensions that shape lived experiences and only emphasize hybridity, mobility and transnational belonging. This study addresses this gap and examines how emotionally experiences are spatially embedded within domestic, social and cultural environments influencing the construction of identity and belonging. This research adopts a qualitative and interpretive approach and draws on close textual analysis of selected works by migrant women writers. This research is also informed by theoretical frameworks from emotional geography, affect theory and feminist literary criticism. This study analysis that loneliness and alienation function not as incidental emotions but as central structuring forces within migrant narratives. These emotional states are mediated through everyday encounters and disrupted social networks, the findings suggest that emotional precarity can also enable reflection and identity reconfiguration which demonstrates that belonging is not a fixed condition but an ongoing, negotiated process. The study highlights the importance of attending to emotional experience indiscussions of diaspora particularly in relation to gendered forms of displacement.

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Awasthi, M. (2026). Emotional Geographies of Belonging: Loneliness, Alienation, and Identity in Migrant Women’s Literature. International Journal of Creative and Open Research in Engineering and Management, <i>02</i>(04). https://doi.org/10.55041/ijcope.v2i4.102

Awasthi, Muskan. "Emotional Geographies of Belonging: Loneliness, Alienation, and Identity in Migrant Women’s Literature." International Journal of Creative and Open Research in Engineering and Management, vol. 02, no. 04, 2026, pp. . doi:https://doi.org/10.55041/ijcope.v2i4.102.

Awasthi, Muskan. "Emotional Geographies of Belonging: Loneliness, Alienation, and Identity in Migrant Women’s Literature." International Journal of Creative and Open Research in Engineering and Management 02, no. 04 (2026). https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.55041/ijcope.v2i4.102.

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