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Access Type
Open Access
Document Type
thesis
Degree Program
Sociology
Degree Type
Master of Arts (M.A.)
Year Degree Awarded
2008
Month Degree Awarded
February
Keywords
Colombian immigration, immigration and sexuality, Colombian gay men in NYC, Jackson Heights NYC
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.
DOI
https://doi.org/10.7275/413324
First Advisor
Millie Thayer