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Stella, Francesca and Gawlewicz, Anna
(2021).
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/1369183X.2020.1863203
Abstract
In this article, we explore queer migrants’ social networks and the role language plays in how they negotiate companionship, romance and sex within queer community and diasporic environments. We draw on interviews with 56 self-identified LGBT migrants from Central and Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union living in Scotland, UK. In doing so, we bring into conversation and critically engage with perspectives from queer migration literature and from work on migrants’ social networks and language use. In the article, we show how language underpins access to English-speaking and ethnic social circles, and how it is powerfully bound up with emotions, affect and perceptions of social proximity or distance. We argue for the need to move beyond abstract notions of queer or diasporic communities, and for an exploration of queer migrants’ sociality grounded in their personal communities, social networks and the language(s) used within them. We argue that this approach can better capture queer migrants’ complex identity negotiations and diverse sources of support and belonging, without assuming the primacy of either sexuality or ethnicity.
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- Item ORO ID
- 75286
- Item Type
- Journal Item
- ISSN
- 1469-9451
- Project Funding Details
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Funded Project Name Project ID Funding Body Intimate Migrations: Exploring the experiences of lesbian, gay and bisexual migrants from Central and Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union in Scotland ES/L009307/1 Economic and Social Reseach Council - Keywords
- Queer migration; lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender migrants; language and migration; social networks; East European migrants
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Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS) > Social Sciences and Global Studies > Geography
Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS) > Social Sciences and Global Studies
Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS) - Research Group
- Global Challenges and Social Justice
- Copyright Holders
- © 2020 Francesca Stella, © 2020 Anna Gawlewicz
- Depositing User
- Anna Gawlewicz