“…To walk, walk, walk, and at the end of all work, give back to the earth the body it lent us 2 (1976, p. 230). 3 The melancholia of migration is so emblematic that the Galician language has a term for it: morriña. While Galician morriña has been compared to American homesickness, Spanish añoranza, and Portuguese saudade, morriña is so rooted in each individual's immigrant experience that it defies a fixed, objective definition.…”