Longings for Berlin: Exploring the workings of the psycho-social imaginary in British migration

This article explores the ways in which the dominant tropes and spaces of Berlin are used affectively and imaginatively to create meaning for individual migrants as psycho-social agents with unique biographies. Depth interpretation, drawing upon psycho-social research methodology can enrich our understanding of the more nuanced, unconscious emotional uses of a city and its symbolic representations. Such insights, we argue, add to our understanding of the non-economic and symbolic aspects of middle class intra-European migration