The impact of family ties on the mobility decisions of gay men and lesbians

Wimark, Thomas

doi:10.1080/0966369x.2015.1034246

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“…According to the interviewees, one of the most common ways to address possible displacement by the family was to keep desire a secret and thus to be able to maintain a stable location. Many of the interviewees hid their desires from families that offered stability and safety, a point that has been recognised in earlier studies (Wimark, 2016). Jamal, Mohammed and Tahir moved back in with their families after a long period of insecurity on the road.…”

Section: Family Marking the Limitsmentioning

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Homemaking and perpetual liminality among queer refugees

Wimark

2019

Social & Cultural Geography

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As people continue to flee repressive regimes, discussions of refugees' state of liminality have intensified. Refugee camps and detention centres tend to force refugees to endure living in liminality for long periods of time. Taking fleeing as a point of departure, this study suggests a change from the notion of fleeing as movement to a search for home and homemaking. This understanding shifts the analysis away from state-controlled spaces to a wider consideration of spaces of importance for homemaking. Widening the discussion on liminality to homemaking indicates that liminality can be experienced in a variety of spaces. Using material from interviews with queer refugees in the Swedish countryside, I discuss their travels, displacements and homemaking. Their stories show that creating a home is a continuous process delimited by norms in families, ethnic networks, host societies and queer networks. Not adhering to these norms renders homemaking difficult and pushes some queer refugees to liminal spaces. Thus, I suggest an understanding of some queer refugees as constantly rejected and pushed into a perpetual state of liminal homemaking. An analysis that illuminates refugees' displacements from belonging moves discussions of liminality away from statecontrolled spaces and highlights the norms that govern the homemaking process. Faire son chez-soi et liminalité perpétuelle chez les réfugiés queer RÉSUMÉ Alors que les peuples ne cessent de fuir les régimes répressifs, les débats sur l'état de liminalité des réfugiés se sont intensifiés. Les camps de réfugiés et centres de détention ont tendance à forcer les réfugiés à endurer un état de vie liminaire pendant de longues périodes. Prenant comme point de départ la notion de fuite, cette étude suggère de penser la fuite non comme mouvement mais comme quête d'un chez-soi. Cette interprétation fait glisser l'analyse au-delà de la question des espaces contrôlés par l'État vers une considération des espaces importants pour la fabrique d'un chez-soi. Élargir la discussion sur la liminalité à la fabrique d'un chez-soi signifie que la liminalité peut être vécue au travers une variété d'espaces. À l'aide d'entretiens avec des réfugiés queer ARTICLE HISTORY

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Section: Family Marking the Limitsmentioning

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Homemaking and perpetual liminality among queer refugees

Wimark

2019

Social & Cultural Geography

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“…Despite these potential linkages, much of the research on gay migration has been at the intranational scale and little has focused specifically on gay men's health. Several have explored, for example, the role of coming out and identity formation in rural‐to‐urban migration among gay men and lesbians (Fortier ; Lewis ; Wimark ). In terms of health, a number of diffusionist studies have examined return migration of HIV‐positive gay men to rural locations and its implications for local the health care systems (Cohn and others ; Ellis and Muschkin ) while ignoring the particularities of how or why they left or became infected.…”

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Urban encounters and sexual health among gay and bisexual immigrant men: perspectives from the settlement and aids service sectors

Lewis

2016

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Gay men's health researchers in North America have recently attended to sexual and mental health issues affecting ethnic minority men, many of whom are also immigrants. Most of this work is grounded in epidemiological models that focus on relationships between individual HIV risk and sexual behaviors. Consequently, they the frame the sexual health of gay and bisexual immigrants as the product of cultural issues (for example, family and religious homophobia, lack of health education) or gay community issues (prevalence of drug use and casual sex) that lead to self‐devaluation, depression, and unprotected sex with multiple partners. Few studies, however, examine these phenomena through the lens of migration and resettlement. Using the narratives from twelve in‐depth interviews with settlement and AIDS Service Organization (ASO) workers in Toronto, Ottawa, and London, Ontario, Canada, this article examines four types of post‐migration urban encounters that influence sexual health: negotiations of resettlement‐related stress, encounters with the urban gay community, encounters with the online gay community, and encounters with sexual health promotion itself. The findings suggest that these encounters are important intervening events that mediate the relationship between the attributes of the immigrant and his sexual health behaviors and outcomes.

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“…schools and workplaces) can perpetuate geometries of power that influence how human lives unfold (Bailey ; Worth ; Lewis ). At the same time, geographically co‐located life courses may still differ considerably by ethnicity, class and sexuality (Finney ; Wimark ). The life courses of researchers and participants are therefore not only linked temporarily or professionally in specific field sites (Elder et al .…”

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Linked life courses in fieldwork: researcher, participant and field

Lewis

2017

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This article discusses the ways in which fieldwork transforms, and is transformed by, the life trajectories of researchers, participants and the field itself. I suggest that fieldwork interweaves the past training and ongoing development of the researcher, the personal and professional life courses of his/her research participants, and the cultural and institutional histories of both academic fields and the physical sites in which fieldwork is conducted. Each of these life course strands involves geographically contingent subjectivities and perspectives that coalesce in fieldwork and lead to productive exchanges as well as conflicts. Early career researchers in particular may face extensive challenges negotiating these conflicts in the context of competitive and neo‐liberal academic environments.

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The impact of family ties on the mobility decisions of gay men and lesbians

Cited by 37 publications

References 54 publications

Homemaking and perpetual liminality among queer refugees

Homemaking and perpetual liminality among queer refugees

Urban encounters and sexual health among gay and bisexual immigrant men: perspectives from the settlement and aids service sectors

Linked life courses in fieldwork: researcher, participant and field

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