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