Moving “Out,” Moving On: Gay Men's Migrations Through the Life Course

Lewis, Nathaniel M.

doi:10.1080/00045608.2013.873325

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“…Interpretation of public health implications of the disproportionate health risks from HAPs quantified here should be tempered, as the NATA offers cumulative lifetime exposure measures, yet people do not remain in their 2010 census tracts of residence throughout their lifetimes. This is of particular relevance to sexual minority populations that exhibit high levels of life course mobility (Lewis, 2014). Because the NATA data inadequately characterize the range of environmental contexts that influence people’s exposures to air pollution, reliance on this dataset leads to inferences that are confounded by the uncertain geographic context problem (UGCoP) (see Kwan 2012).…”

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Environmental injustice and sexual minority health disparities: A national study of inequitable health risks from air pollution among same-sex partners

Collins

Grineski

Morales

2017

Social Science & Medicine

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Air pollution is deleterious to human health, and numerous studies have documented racial and socioeconomic inequities in air pollution exposures. Despite the marginalized status of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) populations, no national studies have examined if they experience inequitable exposures to air pollution. This cross-sectional study investigated inequities in the exposure of same-sex partner households to hazardous air pollutants (HAPs) in the US. We examined cancer and respiratory risks from HAPs across 71,207 census tracts using National Air Toxics Assessment and US Census data. We calculated population-weighted mean cancer and respiratory risks from HAPs for same-sex male, same-sex female and heterosexual partner households. We used generalized estimating equations (GEEs) to examine multivariate associations between sociodemographics and health risks from HAPs, while focusing on inequities based on the tract composition of same-sex, same-sex male and same-sex female partners. We found that mean cancer and respiratory risks from HAPs for same-sex partners are 12.3% and 23.8% greater, respectively, than for heterosexual partners. GEEs adjusting for racial/ethnic and socioeconomic status, population density, urban location, and geographic clustering show that living in census tracts with high (vs. low) proportions of same-sex partners is associated with significantly greater cancer and respiratory risks from HAPs, and that living in same-sex male partner enclaves is associated with greater risks than living in same-sex female partner enclaves. Results suggest that some health disparities experienced by LGBT populations (e.g. cancer, asthma) may be compounded by environmental exposures. Findings highlight the need to extend the conceptual framework for explaining LGBT health disparities beyond psycho-behavioral mechanisms translating social stress into illness to include environmental mechanisms. Because psycho-behavioral and environmental factors may together exacerbate health disparities, we call for a shift toward interdisciplinary research on LGBT health that takes into account cumulative risks, including the role of environmental exposures.

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Environmental injustice and sexual minority health disparities: A national study of inequitable health risks from air pollution among same-sex partners

Collins

Grineski

Morales

2017

Social Science & Medicine

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“…Areas of concern within this more geographically–inflected approach have included transitions such as those into adhulthood (Valentine ), older age and grandparenthood (Tarrant ; Riley ) and into retirement (Riley ). In assessing the potential areas for further development, Hopkins and Pain () stress the need to move toward a more holistic consideration of the lifecourse –from younger to older age – something taken forward in explorations of the processes of migration and the changing meaning of place over the lifecourse for Irish emigrants (Ni Laoire ) and homosexual men (Lewis ). Alongside this, geographers have noted the need to examine the importance of intergenerational links and how particular spatial contexts have significance for the lifecourse of different individuals (Hopkins and Pain ; Vanderbeck ).…”

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The Fishing Lifecourse: Exploring the Importance of Social Contexts, Capitals and (More Than) Fishing Identities

Gustavsson

Riley

2017

Sociologia Ruralis

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There is an emerging call for social scientists to pay greater attention to the social and cultural contexts of fishing and fishers. A resulting literature is evolving which focuses on individual life experiences, particularly relating to entering the fishing occupation, and what these might mean for the future sustainability of the fishing industry. However, the ways in which these lives are linked and intergenerationally connected remains somewhat of a blindspot. This article considers the potential of a lifecourse approach to help us better understand how fishers accumulate, utilise and share capital(s) in getting onto and moving along the ‘fishing ladder’. Drawing on in‐depth qualitative research with fishing families on the Llŷn peninsula small‐scale fishery in north Wales (UK) the article explores how there are multiple social contexts from which ‘prospective fishers’ can begin their fishing career and which differentially (re)shape how they can accumulate capital over time. Later on in the lifecourse, fishers (re)negotiate their fishing identities in relation to the lives of others, within transitions such as parenthood as well as with older age. The article's findings offer a much‐needed temporal dimension to our understanding of fishing lives and what it means to be a ‘good fisher’.

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“…While social scientists have begun to use the life course lens more frequently (Bailey ; Hörschelmann ; Lewis ) it has not often been employed to examine the fieldworker's role as the instrument of data collection and their epistemological practices over the course of their research lives. Fieldworker reflexivity can be robustly joined with the process of interpretation and data analysis by a careful re‐examination of data such as field notes.…”

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‘Maybe you will remember’: interpretation and life course reflexivity

Gambold

2017

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This paper examines the relationship of the fieldworker, self‐proclaimed venerate ‘insider/outsider’, to their shifting role as researcher and traveller on the life course. Ethnographic fieldwork is a transitory research method, reliant on a gaze shifting from the breadth of the field site to the depth of individual human experience. The researcher is the conduit and the instrument of data collection but has not been adequately understood as a transforming agent in the process. Reflexivity is required to understand how the researcher's experiences and shifting position on the life course converge with fieldwork processes and data. Inspired by a phenomenological life course perspective I use data from fieldwork in Russia, Mexico and southern Europe to throw light on the emergent effects of life course shifts on the fieldworker's positionality and interpretation of research experiences and field notes. Researcher and textual reflexivity can result in a more vibrant recognition of the messiness of the human fieldwork experience and the resulting epistemological potential.

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Moving “Out,” Moving On: Gay Men's Migrations Through the Life Course

Cited by 58 publications

References 154 publications

Environmental injustice and sexual minority health disparities: A national study of inequitable health risks from air pollution among same-sex partners

Environmental injustice and sexual minority health disparities: A national study of inequitable health risks from air pollution among same-sex partners

The Fishing Lifecourse: Exploring the Importance of Social Contexts, Capitals and (More Than) Fishing Identities

‘Maybe you will remember’: interpretation and life course reflexivity

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