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Migrating Bodies: Sexuality, Assimilation and Transnationalism

Author(s) Ms. Shritama Mukherjee
Country India
Abstract The present paper aims to examine the conjunction between sexuality and migration, questions of citizenship—cultural and sexual, notions of heteronormativity and performing the queer in the everyday through Shani Mootoo’s short stories in Out on the Main Street and selections from The Predicament of Or. Mootoo’s work speaks volumes about the struggles of reconfiguring one’s identity when it is qualified by the status of being migrant and queer. Displacement and migration in order to find a better recognition as the sexual ‘other’ finds place in Mootoo’s work and is a growing social phenomenon. Such migration, especially from third world to first world countries, results in double marginality as immigrants and queers. Alternative sexualities produce the constant need to escape the orthodox social normativities and construct affective economies based on equal recognition and assimilation. The interplay between mobility, sexuality and social relations as regards performing the hetero- or the homonormative constitute the main crux of this paper. It would be the focus of this paper to explore such facets of migration that are inextricably linked with sexuality or deviant sexuality and its implications on global and transnational economies.
Keywords Sexuality, migration, mobility, queer migrations, globalization, citizenship
Field Sociology > Linguistic / Literature
Published In Volume 8, Issue 2, March-April 2026
Published On 2026-03-29
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