Intimate mobilities
Emotional Embodiment and Queer Migration
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3977969 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Andrew Gorman-Murray (0000-0001-7479-8172, University of Wollongong, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2009 |
| Volume | 10 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 441-460 |
| Publication date | 2009-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Social & Cultural Geography (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1464-9365 • E-ISSN: 1470-1197 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/14649360902853262 |
| OpenAlex | W2051216724 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 133 |
| References cited | 29 |
This paper offers theoretically-informed empirical insights into queer migration in the contemporary West. Understanding the rationales, patterns and outcomes of migration is important for scholars researching the life experiences of gay men, lesbians and other non-heterosexuals. This paper advances knowledge of queer migration by interpreting interview data from thirty-seven gay and lesbian Australians. The analysis is prompted by a qualitative and narrative turn in migration studies, and the urgings of new mobility studies to account for the embodied and emotional dimensions of migration. Interrogating gay and lesbian Australians' migration narratives over the life course, I scrutinise the emotionally embodied nature of queer migration. I focus on the body as a vector of displacement, and explore how emotions, desires and intimate attachments shape queer mobilities. Respondents particularly emphasised the roles of 'comfort' and 'love' in relocation decisions. I found that these feelings interleaved with three patterns of emotionally embodied queer migration in the data—coming out, gravitational and relationship migrations. The embodied affects of comfort played a key role in coming out and gravitational migrations, while the exigencies of love underpinned relationship migration
Art · Embodied cognition · Feeling · Lesbian · Mobilities · Narrative · Queer · Sociology · Anthropology · Gender Studies · LGBTQ Health, Identity, and Policy · Migration, Refugees, and Integration · Psychology · Sex work and related issues · Social Psychology
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| Unique citing works | 133 |
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| Citations per year | 8,87 |
| Citation span | 2011 - 2026 (16) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | Yes |
| Citation types | Neutral: 131 |