Race and Ethnicity in the Lives of LGBTQ Parents and Their Children: Perspectives from and Beyond North America

Brainer, Amy; Moore, Mignon R.; Banerjee, Pallavi

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-35610-1_5

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“…For example, scholars have examined Russian queer diasporas in London and Berlin, showing that in countries where non-heterosexual relationships are criminalised or marginalised, transnational migration helps LGBTQ individuals to evade hegemonic heteronormativity and potential persecution (Mole, 2018;Mole et al, 2014). An emerging body of research on LGBTQ families has shed new light on the families' use of transnational surrogacy as a non-traditional pathway of reproduction and family formation, with particular attention to its ethical and inequality implications (Brainer et al, 2020). Despite a growing body of research on gender in transnational families, sexuality has yet to receive due scholarly attention.…”

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The transnationalisation of intimacy: family relations and changes in an age of global mobility and digital media

Cabalquinto¹,

Yang²

2023

Handbook on Migration and the Family

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This chapter develops the 'transnationalisation of intimacy' as a conceptual lens to critically investigate the performance, embodiment and negotiation of transnational familial intimacy in a fast-evolving globalising and digital society. This is achieved by conducting a state-ofthe-art review of theories and empirical studies on family relations and practices in a transnational context. We discuss how transnational familial intimacy is shaped by the conflation of structural and technological forces, which at once reinforces and challenges social and cultural norms of the family. We first show that intimate family practices are engendered and undermined by mobility regimes and infrastructures. We then illuminate how communicative practices pave the way for transnational linkages. However, inequalities may play out in the transnationalisation of familial intimacy, especially when material and symbolic forces are embedded in an unequal terrain. Finally, we consider the implications of transnationalism for (de)normalising family relations and practices, in creating distinctive, new transnational forms of intimacy between family members. In sum, this chapter draws attention to the mutually constitutive nature of transnationalism and changing family relations in a global and digital age.

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The transnationalisation of intimacy: family relations and changes in an age of global mobility and digital media

Cabalquinto¹,

Yang²

2023

Handbook on Migration and the Family

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“…The demographic coverage reflects a narrow range of this population. The overwhelmingly White, Western, and wealthy nature of these samples presages the need for greater inclusion of racial‐ethnic minorities, international, and economically and geographically diverse samples as well as far more attention to the multiple sexual and gender identities covered under the LGBTQ umbrella, as scholars continue to urgently recommend (see Brainer, Moore, & Banerjee, ; Fish & Russell, ; van Eeden‐Moorefield et al, ).…”

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The Families ofLGBTQOlder Adults: Theoretical Approaches to Creative Family Connections in the Context of Marginalization,Social‐HistoricalChange, and Resilience

Allen

Lavender‐Stott

2020

J of Family Theo & Revie

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This article examines how families are theorized at the complex crossroads of age, sexuality, and gender, and explores theoretical innovations derived from analyses embedded in the families of LGBTQ older adults, who have lived outside the embrace of heteronormativity. To address the extent of theorizing, we conducted a content analysis of 36 studies from 2010 to 2019. The articles revealed a social justice orientation that contextualized the marginalization and resilience in the social-historical framing of LGBTQ older adults' family life. Most articles used theory explicitly or implicitly, including life course, minority stress, and intersectionality theories, and demonstrated the intimate connection of theory and research. Future theorizing about the families of LGBTQ older adults requires more diverse samples, contextualization of LGBTQ older adults' families through critical approaches such as queer theory, and the opportunity to study new avenues into intra-and

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“…This is an important group to study. But we cannot assume that such women represent the broader population of lesbian mothers, a majority of whom conceive their children in the context of a heterosexual union (Brainer, Moore, and Banerjee 2019;Moore 2009). During the last two decades, a theoretically rich body of work on queer lives and struggles for recognition in Asia has kept pace with gender and sexuality rights movements in the region.…”

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Lesbian and Gay Parents, Heterosexual Kinship, and Queer Dreams: Making Families in Twenty-First Century Taiwan

Brainer¹

2021

Positions: Asia Critique

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This article analyzes ways that legal and social understandings of kinship intersect for Taiwanese queer parents and prospective parents. Parents in this research experience varying degrees of legal and cultural intelligibility within the existing household registration system and the familial contexts in which they reside and carry out their daily lives. Many are rearing children in multigenerational, extended family households and are juggling a variety of gendered family roles and responsibilities that shape their parenting practices. Their experiences highlight the limits of rights discourses that treat marriage and parenthood as largely class- and gender-neutral institutions and presuppose a nuclear family model. Such uncritical approaches to marriage and parenthood leave the normative power of these systems intact even as they provisionally open to greater numbers of people. The article foregrounds pathways to parenthood and struggles for legal recognition among queers in a variety of family arrangements, including those that do not fit within the conventional representation of a cohabiting and marriage-desiring same-sex couple with children.

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Race and Ethnicity in the Lives of LGBTQ Parents and Their Children: Perspectives from and Beyond North America

Cited by 14 publications

References 90 publications

The transnationalisation of intimacy: family relations and changes in an age of global mobility and digital media

The transnationalisation of intimacy: family relations and changes in an age of global mobility and digital media

The Families ofLGBTQOlder Adults: Theoretical Approaches to Creative Family Connections in the Context of Marginalization,Social‐HistoricalChange, and Resilience

Lesbian and Gay Parents, Heterosexual Kinship, and Queer Dreams: Making Families in Twenty-First Century Taiwan

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