(Re)Telling traditions: the language of social identity among queer South Asians in the United States

Adur, Shweta Majumdar; Purkayastha, Bandana

doi:10.1080/19438192.2016.1199456

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“…For example, Debashish traces his parents’ origins to a southern state in India but grew up in Kenya before moving to the US. I use the reference South Asia based on the nomenclature adopted by queer South Asian groups in the US (for a fuller discussion on this issue, see Adur and Purkayastha, 2017). The interviews ranged from one to four hours and have been transcribed verbatim.…”

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“…As I discussed earlier, there is a strategic investment in the model minority gendered heterosexist culture, wherein heterosexual marriage and family formation are considered inviolable rites of passage. For many families, homosexuality is scorned as a western lifestyle choice or a ‘white disease’ (Prashad, 2001); an idea that is inaccurate and at odds with the history and traditions of South Asian cultures (for more see Adur and Purkayastha, 2017). For some South Asian families, the ‘cure’ lies in returning the ‘transgressor’ to the homeland.…”

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In pursuit of love: ‘Safe passages’, migration and queer South Asians in the US

Adur

2017

Current Sociology

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In the last decade or two the notion of human security has emerged as a benchmark for assessing the quality of everyday lives. Despite the paradigmatic shift, scholarly inquiries on human security rarely center sexual migrants. This article attends to this gap. Based on 30 in-depth interviews and supplemented with web material, the article describes the unique and multidimensional vulnerabilities endured by queer immigrants of color – queer South Asians – in the US. The article simultaneously contextualizes and moves beyond the areas of law and public policy, to examine queer migration and security from the subjective lens of the migrants (documented, undocumented, refugee and asylees) in order to demonstrate that safety, security and acceptance are negotiated with multiple agents (such as intimate partners, family, co-ethnic community, etc.) amid social cleavages (such as class, nationality, religion, gender and age) that facilitate or interrupt migration in ‘glocal’ contexts where the global and local intersect in complex ways to suffuse all such experiences.

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In pursuit of love: ‘Safe passages’, migration and queer South Asians in the US

Adur

2017

Current Sociology

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Queer Politics of Naming and Figuration of the “Lesbian” in Maja Ma

Chatterjee

2023

South Asian Review

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Social networks, language and identity negotiations among queer migrants in Scotland

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Gawlewicz

2020

Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies

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In this article, we explore queer migrants' social networks and the role language plays in how they negotiate companionship, romance and sex within queer community and diasporic environments. We draw on interviews with 56 self-identified LGBT migrants from Central and Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union living in Scotland, UK. In doing so, we bring into conversation and critically engage with perspectives from queer migration literature and from work on migrants' social networks and language use. In the article, we show how language underpins access to English-speaking and ethnic social circles, and how it is powerfully bound up with emotions, affect and perceptions of social proximity or distance. We argue for the need to move beyond abstract notions of queer or diasporic communities, and for an exploration of queer migrants' sociality grounded in their personal communities, social networks and the language(s) used within them. We argue that this approach can better capture queer migrants' complex identity negotiations and diverse sources of support and belonging, without assuming the primacy of either sexuality or ethnicity.

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(Re)Telling traditions: the language of social identity among queer South Asians in the United States

Cited by 5 publications

References 19 publications

In pursuit of love: ‘Safe passages’, migration and queer South Asians in the US

In pursuit of love: ‘Safe passages’, migration and queer South Asians in the US

Queer Politics of Naming and Figuration of the “Lesbian” in Maja Ma

Social networks, language and identity negotiations among queer migrants in Scotland

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