AMOR, MIGRACIÓN E IDENTIDAD. FLUJOS DE MIGRACIÓN FEMENINA ENTRE MÉXICO E ITALIA

Seventy- three per cent of Mexican migration to Italy are women (Institute of Mexicans Abroad, 2016) who migrate for love. They said they had left a job, a house and a family for a love relationship in Italy. Through a detailed analysis of 26 interviews with migrant Mexican women from different Italian regions and by using an ethnographic approach; this thesis discuss love as a social category. This kind of migration, which has not been motivated by a political or economical reason, is out of the Mexican migration studies for its apparently low numerical consistency. As a result, the process of being a woman in another country is most of the times ignored. Hence to work with identity, love and migration some important questions may arise: How is it to be a wife, a mother or a widow when migrating? How does the identity have to change or adapt through the lens of a love story? What are the cultural heritage patterns that are followed and what are the ones that are lost? The study invites to explore this questions from a interdiscplinary approach to discover another side of the migration phenomenon.