A lesbian, gay and bisexual migration tale: On the role of intimate citizenship for transforming sexual subjectivities

Scientific paper - Original scientific paper

• Author: Tanja Vuckovic Juros
• Author's institution: University of Zagreb; Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
• Scientific / art field, discipline and subdiscipline: SOCIAL SCIENCES; Sociology; Specific Sociologies

Abstract (english)

This study examines the role of migrations for sexual subjectivities, based on biographic narrative interviews with CEE LGB migrants married or raising children with a same-sex partner in Belgium and the Netherlands. Migrants’ experiences highlight the salience of the migration-as-liberation with the empowering role of new beginnings in LGB-protective countries. At the same time, migrants’ stories also challenge this liberation tale, especially when situated within transnational family relations. In this context, migration and post-migration junctures differently impact sexual subjectivities, demonstrating fragmentations and non-linearity, and highlighting how migrations are only potentially transformative, with an important role played by full access to intimate citizenship.

• Keywords (english): sexual subjectivities; LGB migrants; CEE; transnational families; biographic narrative interviews
• Language: english
• Publication type: Scientific paper - Original scientific paper
• Publication status: Published
• Peer review: Peer review - international
• Publication version: Accepted version
• Journal title: Sexualities
• Numbering: vol. -, 136346072211032
• p-ISSN: 1363-4607
• e-ISSN: 1461-7382
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/13634607221103207
• URN:NBN: urn:nbn:hr:131:072649
• Publication: 2022-05-20
• Project: Number: 702650; Title (english): Transformation of Family Norms in a Transnational World: How LGBT Migrants can Affect Change through Social Remittances; Acronym: TOFNITW; Leader: Tanja Vučković Juroš; Jurisdiction: eu; Funding stream: EXCELLENT SCIENCE - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions
• Document URL: http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/13634607221103207
• Type of resource: Text
• Access conditions: Open access
• Public note: This work was supported by the H2020 Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (702650).
• Created on: 2023-07-13 18:20:37