| Summary: | This paper explores the role of emotions and feelings in the family strategies of the Spanish migrants who went to Latin America all along the twentieth century. It is part of the historiographical current that studies the social and cultural construction of emotions. This current analyzes the contextual imprint of emotions, the language used for its demonstration and the emotional expected patterns, bearable or questionable in a particular time, place and culture, as well as the hallmarks of class, gender and age, among other things, in emotional experience. Both, the decision of leaving and the return strategies of migrants, influence the family decisions to protect the family unit, the economic support of it or maintenance of communication. All this involve a high emotional content shared through letters, testimonies, autobiographical writings and interviews, all of them are essential sources in this study.
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