When disconnectivity becomes the key to living
The diasporic experiences of contemporary trans Chinese people in Europe
Dados Bibliográficos
| ID | 8039271 |
|---|---|
| Autores | Xinyu Promio Wang (0000-0003-4372-2399, Ochanomizu University, autor correspondente) |
| Ano | 2025 |
| Volume | 9 |
| Fascículo | 2 |
| Páginas | 291-309 |
| Data de publicação | 2025-09-30 |
| Peer Reviewed | Sim |
| Open Access | Sim |
| Tipo | ARTICLE |
| Periódico | Transitions Journal of Transient Migration (JOURNAL) |
| Identificadores do periódico | ISSN: 2397-7159 • E-ISSN: 2397-7140 |
| Editora | Intellect (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1386/tjtm_00078_1 |
| OpenAlex | W4414891156 |
| Idioma | EN |
| Referências citadas | 23 |
By focusing on the diasporic experiences of trans Chinese migrants who emigrated to Europe during and after the COVID-19 pandemic, this article illuminates the importance of recognizing the constitutive role that digital disconnectivity plays in queers’ negotiation and actualization of their queer aspirations. Findings presented in this article are drawn from qualitative data that I have collected from 2021 to 2023 through in-depth interviews with seven trans Chinese individuals residing in Finland, Germany, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom. This article illuminates how trans Chinese people attract increasingly intensified state censorship and unwanted familial attentions in both the online and offline realms during a time of crisis, hence perpetuating a sense of ‘otherness’ in relation to the purportedly Indigenously heteronormative Chinese society. In this context, escaping both the physical and digital territories of China become essential to circumvent state surveillance while producing alternative online images of self that cater to different audiences, so that trans Chinese migrants can actualize their desires of being/becoming queer in a nonpunitive way. In this sense, I argue that digital disconnectivity is not a symbol of backwardness but rather a tool delicately leveraged by trans Chinese migrants in their pursuit of queer life. It should therefore be conceptualized as an act of individual agency and an expression of grass roots resilience in the absence of institutional queer rights
Agency (philosophy · Censorship · China · Chinese people · Key (lock · Negotiation · Queer · State (computer science · Diaspora, migration, transnational identity · Migration and Labor Dynamics · Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy
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Repression and Quiet Resistance in Xinjiang
Is gender important? Victimisation and perpetration of intimate partner violence in mainland China
LGBT rights versus Asian values
Two Gay Men Seeking Two Lesbians
Bargaining with the State
The information aged
Negotiating Performances of “Real” Marriage in Chinese Queer Xinghun
Assessment of Stigma Towards Homosexuality in China
Ontologies of place, placelessness, and movement
A voice for the voiceless
It has never been “normal
Liberation Technology
A Zero-Sum Game? Repression and Protest in China
The Digital Divide
Queer Intersections
What's the Matter with Books
Rethinking queer migration through the body
Intimate mobilities
Cyberspace and gay rights in a digital China
How Censorship in China Allows Government Criticism but Silences Collective Expression
Sex in Public
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| Altamente citado | Não |