Negotiating Discourses on Homoeroticism: The Coming Out and Other Tales by Colombian Immigrant Men in New York City

Erika Marquez, University of Massachusetts - Amherst

Document Type: Open Access

Degree Program

Sociology

Degree Type

Master of Arts (M.A.)

Year Degree Awarded

2008

Month Degree Awarded

February

Primary Subject Category

Sociology

Keywords

Colombian immigration, immigration and sexuality, Colombian gay men in NYC, Jackson Heights NYC

Advisor(s) or Committee Chair

Thayer, Millie

 

Abstract

This work analyzes the ways in which transnational migration transforms and is transformed by the sexual dimensions of identity. It presents the experience of Colombian homosexual men who have migrated to New York City in the last twenty-five years as a case that illuminates identity transformations in the process of transnational migration. Throughout ethnographic research, this work finds that immigration greatly impacts family arrangements and patterns of inclusion and exclusion in the immigrant's original and recipient society.

Recommended Citation

Marquez, Erika, "Negotiating Discourses on Homoeroticism: The Coming Out and Other Tales by Colombian Immigrant Men in New York City" (2008). Masters Theses. Paper 102.
http://scholarworks.umass.edu/theses/102