The emergence of the other sexual citizen: orientalism and the modernisation of sexuality

Sabsay, Leticia

doi:10.1080/13621025.2012.698484

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“…Our findings therefore lend support to the move to embrace intersectionality in research on sexual citizenship (Grundy and Smith 2005, p. 390, Sabsay 2012). 3 Our approach also aligns with calls for the grounded and contextual study of sexual citizenship as practice, rather than seeking to resolve the nature of the concept at the level of social theory (Brown 2006, p. 875).…”

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Immigrant sexual citizenship: intersectional templates among Mexican gay immigrants to the USA

Epstein

Carrillo

2014

Citizenship Studies

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Existing literature on sexual citizenship has emphasized the sexuality-related claims of de jure citizens of nation-states, generally ignoring immigrants. Conversely, the literature on immigration rarely attends to the salience of sexual issues in understanding the social incorporation of migrants. This article seeks to fill the gap by theorizing and analyzing immigrant sexual citizenship. While some scholars of sexual citizenship have focused on the rights and recognition granted formally by the nation-state and others have stressed more diffuse, cultural perceptions of community and local belonging, we argue that the lived experiences of immigrant sexual citizenship call for multiscalar scrutiny of templates and practices of citizenship that bridge national policies with local connections. Analysis of ethnographic data from a study of 76 Mexican gay and bisexual male immigrants to San Diego, California reveals the specific citizenship templates that these men encounter as they negotiate their intersecting social statuses as gay/bisexual and as immigrants (legal or undocumented); these include an “asylum” template, a “rights” template, and a “local attachments” template. However, the complications of their intersecting identities constrain their capacity to claim immigrant sexual citizenship. The study underscores the importance of both intersectional and multiscalar approaches in research on citizenship as social practice.

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Immigrant sexual citizenship: intersectional templates among Mexican gay immigrants to the USA

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Carrillo

2014

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“…in Sabsay, 2012: 609). We should remain wary of an uncritical acceptance of this language of freedom, including sexual freedom, considering the paradox that human rights and humanitarianism can be seen to operate as tools and strategies of contemporary imperialism (see Douzinas, 2007;Sabsay, 2012).…”

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Performing the 'New' Europe

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Gluhovic²

2013

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“…Although sexual citizenship has brought into focus issues that had previously been taken for granted or ignored in accounts of citizenship concerning bodies, identities and relationships, it nevertheless retains and leaves unquestioned many conventional features of liberal western frameworks of citizenship (see also Sabsay, 2012). …”

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“…Bell and Binnie, 2000; Evans, 1993); and the ways in which constructions of sexual citizenship constitute neo-orientalist and colonial practices (e.g. Altman, 2001; Binnie, 2004; El-Tayeb, 2011; Massad, 2007; Sabsay, 2012). It is therefore prescient to take stock of this burgeoning field both to understand how the concept of sexual citizenship has developed and, more importantly, to assess critically the implications of this legacy for future conceptual and empirical development.…”

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Rethinking Sexual Citizenship

Richardson

2016

Sociology

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Over the last two decades sexuality has emerged as a key theme in debates about citizenship, leading to the development of the concept of sexual citizenship. This article reviews this literature and identifies four main areas of critical framing: work that contests the significance of sexuality to citizenship; critiques that focus on the possibilities and limitations of mobilising the language of citizenship in sexual politics; analyses of sexual citizenship in relation to nationalisms and border making; and literature that critically examines western constructions of sexuality and sexual politics underpinning understandings of sexual citizenship. In order to progress the field theoretically, the article seeks to extend critiques of sexual citizenship focusing on two key aspects of its construction: the sexual citizen-subject and spaces of sexual citizenship. It argues for a critical rethink that encompasses a de-centring of a ‘western-centric’ focus in order to advance understandings of how sexual citizenship operates both in the Global North and South.

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The emergence of the other sexual citizen: orientalism and the modernisation of sexuality

Cited by 95 publications

References 19 publications

Immigrant sexual citizenship: intersectional templates among Mexican gay immigrants to the USA

Immigrant sexual citizenship: intersectional templates among Mexican gay immigrants to the USA

Performing the 'New' Europe

Rethinking Sexual Citizenship

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