Most literature on local–tourist intimate relations focuses on the aspirational migration of Third World subjects, and often presumes the unencumbered mobility of tourists. Yet Northern tourists seek out belonging, emplacement and attachment in the global South for reasons to do with love. In this paper I draw upon research in Costa Rica with European and North American women whose emotional subjectivities, I suggest, shape their mobility shift from tourist to migrant. Using a transnational framework to examine the remaking of emotion in global encounters, I show how emotion, travel and migration are linked, and how cultural and transcultural notions of ‘love’ profoundly affect migration experiences.
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