Media, visibility and sexual identity among gay men with a migration background

Dhoest, Alexander

doi:10.1177/1363460715604330

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“…Several studies involving refugees have shown that families’ access to communication technology in their home countries has become a means of burdening refugees with financial requests (Lindley 2009). Likewise, families’ and friends’ easy access to Internet phone calls and connections through social media have increased the risks of exposing gay refugees’ sexual identities (Binnie and Klesse 2013; Dhoest 2016). This latter consequence testifies to the fact that social fields and their respective structures stretch beyond national borders to influence refugees’ lives in their host country (see Portes [1998] and Zontini [2010] for their discussions of how social capital may restrict immigrants’ opportunities in the host society).…”

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“…A similar narrative frames the internal migration of sexual minorities as a unidirectional move from rural patriarchy to urban freedom which, mainly, awaits the white middle-class lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenders (LGBTs; Duggan [2003] 2012; Gorman-Murray 2007). Although some (and growing) attention is given to sexual-racial minority immigrants ’ ties with their home countries (Ayoub and Bauman 2018; Binnie and Klesse 2013; Carrillo 2018; Dhoest 2016; Mepschen, Duyvendak, and Tonkens 2010), the nascent body of literature on queer migration has neglected sexual-racial minority refugees’ transnational lives.…”

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Refugees’ Transnational Practices: Gay Iranian Men Navigating Refugee Status and Cross-border Ties in Canada

Karimi

2019

Social Currents

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Despite the rise in displaced population numbers, refugees’ transnational lives, and those of sexual-racial minority refugees in particular, have remained at the margins of transnational migration studies. In this article, I focus on the case of gay Iranian refugees in Canada and analyze their pre-migration transnational lives and understandings of the asylum process, their post-migration transnational ties, and their activism practices. I underline refugees’ transnational agencies and argue against the rhetoric that represents refugees as passive migrants whose emigration means detachment from home countries. Based on my field work findings, I endorse analytical and methodological shifts to simultaneously explore refugees’ pre-migration and en-route lives in addition to their post-migration lives to stress the power relations that, through social ties, affect refugees’ transnational practices. I connect transnational, forced, and queer migration literature to the Bourdieusian social theory and, in conclusion, argue that it is necessary to deploy de-nationalized methods of inquiry to account for intra-group diversities as well as border-crossing social ties in addition to economic ties.

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Refugees’ Transnational Practices: Gay Iranian Men Navigating Refugee Status and Cross-border Ties in Canada

Karimi

2019

Social Currents

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“…A large body of texts within the main field of Production Studies (see Caldwell, 2008; Deuze, 2007; Mayer et al, 2009) somewhat overlooks questions about sexuality, sexual identity and queerness. Much of the focus around LGBT sexual identity in Media Studies pertains to issues of representation (see Barnhurst, 2007; Gross, 2001; Walters, 2001) along with analyses of LGBT screen audiences (Dhoest, 2016; Kern, 2014). Inasmuch as LGBT representation and audiences have been a central focus to research, scholarship is beginning to turn towards the ways in which media industries produce LGBT sexual identities.…”

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Camping it up and toning it down: gay and lesbian sexual identity in media work

Kerrigan

O’Brien

2020

Media, Culture & Society

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By its make-up, Irish screen production is heteronormative. This can be seen in terms of output, representation and production. Accordingly, this article argues that heteronormativity is a structuring dynamic in the identities of gay and lesbian media workers. Its impacts are two-fold and somewhat contradictory. On the one hand, it results in bias and discrimination towards many media labourers, while on the other hand, heteronormativity offers gay and lesbian workers some opportunities to overcome or challenge overbearing structures wrought by heteronorms within media industries. To demonstrate this argument, we maintain that disclosure and the formation of networks play a role in the maintenance of gay and lesbian identities in media work, whereas bias and discrimination serve to other and discipline gay and lesbian media workers for not meeting heteronormative expectations. The article concludes by exploring how gay and lesbian media workers can manage and co-opt their sexual minority identity in a way that can challenge heteronormative expectations, providing a common ground in media work. Furthermore, this article builds on the growing field of Queer Production Studies by contributing towards the field’s expanding set of empirical practices and diversifying the contexts in which Queer Production Studies research takes place.

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“…Beyond Ireland, there is a considerable amount of research on the representation of LGBT sexuality on screen (Beirne, 2012;Dyer, 1990;Gross, 2001;Russo, 1981) as well as analyses of LGBT screen audiences (Dhoest, 2016;Kern, 2014). With the exception of a few key texts (Caldwell, 2008;Mayer, 2016;Moore, 2009), LGBT production of media has been less extensively researched and a focus on radio is even rarer.…”

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“Openness through Sound”: Dualcasting on Irish LGBT Radio

Kerrigan¹,

O’Brien²

2018

Journal of Radio & Audio Media

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This article explores how Ireland's first LGBT radio station, Open FM, attempted to offer LGBT radio in a heteronormative media landscape. It uses semi-structured interviews with two of the stations founders as well as posts from online LGBT message bulletin boards to argue how Open FM ultimately became ambivalent about its LGBT status and adopted a dualcasting strategy. Despite its ambitions to be a community-led radio station for Ireland's LGBT community, the dualcasting strategy of the station framed many of its endeavors between the mainstream standards of radio broadcasting and the community of interest that their licence claimed to serve.Open FM was a temporary community radio station that aimed to serve an Irish LGBT audience. However, in terms of the vision for the station, the production practices it adopted, and its reception by the audience, Open FM was ambivalent about its LGBT status. Initially intended to be a platform for queer resistance and one that would contest the broader heteronormative Irish radio landscape, the authors argue that Open FM ultimately adopted a dualcasting strategy, which attempted to appeal to both the gay community while also maintaining a heterosexual audience. Sender (2007, p. 305) coins the term "dualcast" to theorize the connections between programs and imagined audiences. Sender's study of gay-themed programming on U.S. cable network Bravo argues that it "dualcast" in order to attract fragmented audiences; in short Bravo ensured that the same show appealed to different audiences. The authors further contend that a similar strategy of dualcasting was deployed in the context of Open FM. For this reason, it is our intention to expand upon the application of the idea of dualcasting to describe how Open FM reached its audience, but also fostered a dualcasting approach to the vision for the station and within its production practices, whereby it tried to

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Media, visibility and sexual identity among gay men with a migration background

Cited by 12 publications

References 23 publications

Refugees’ Transnational Practices: Gay Iranian Men Navigating Refugee Status and Cross-border Ties in Canada

Refugees’ Transnational Practices: Gay Iranian Men Navigating Refugee Status and Cross-border Ties in Canada

Camping it up and toning it down: gay and lesbian sexual identity in media work

“Openness through Sound”: Dualcasting on Irish LGBT Radio

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