Fractured nostalgia and imagined belonging

Family lessons and transnational ties in LGBTQ+ lives

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ID6016915
AuthorsAlexandra Eleazar (0000-0001-8755-6658, University of California, corresponding author)
Year2025
Publication date2025-11-18
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueSexualities (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1363-4607 • E-ISSN: 1461-7382
PublisherSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/13634607251399042
OpenAlexW4416329254
LanguageEN
References cited43

How do self-identified LGBTQ+ individuals with migration histories imagine their transnational belonging when living within the United States? And how do they navigate nostalgia about their home countries? Drawing from 33 in-depth interviews with LGBTQ+ people who have migration histories within their families, my findings introduce fractured nostalgia as a framework through which imagined belonging and (trans)nationalism can be understood across national contexts. Rather than documenting how LGBTQ+ identity shapes migration, or lived experiences of sexual migration, this work highlights how family narratives shape national attachment and nostalgia. In doing so, I show how nostalgia functions across national contexts not only as a force that connects, but additionally, as a force that disconnects

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