PUB - Publikationen an der Universität Bielefeld

The relationship between transnational migration and sexualities has always been complex. On the one hand, cross-border migration has been one of the most prominent forces that introduce migrants to new and diverse ways of engaging with sexualities as it exposes them to new sexual environments, norms, ideologies and practices within new social realities. On the other hand, transnational migration can impose certain constraints on migrants’ sexualities, because of factors ranging from those on the structural level, such as racial, ethnic and social class discrimination and unsuitable working and living arrangements, to the interpersonal level, such as the existence and surveillance...