Moving countries is the move nobody explains. You arrive with suitcases and paperwork, and no one mentions the rest: the food that's gone, the language you aren't funny in yet, the friends left in another time zone, the person you were back there whom nobody here has met.
Portuguese has the word English and Spanish never found: saudade — the presence of an absence. Missing something that may not return, and holding it with tenderness instead of hiding it. Naming with that precision isn't decoration: Barrett and colleagues (2001) showed that people who distinguish their emotions in finer detail regulate them better.
The articles in this moment are for writing migration from the inside: the grief of what stayed behind, the identity that reassembles, and the habit of keeping a record — because rereading yourself six months later is proof of how far you walked, written by the only witness who stood on both shores: you.
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