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Editorial: Migration and Sexual Change
Editorial: Migration and Sexual Change

Author(s): Martina Cvajner, Giuseppe Sciortino
Subject(s): Politics / Political Sciences, Gender Studies, Editorial
Published by: Transnational Press London
Keywords: migration; sexuality; gender; sexual behaviour;

Summary/Abstract: The current world is globally differentiated in many segmented sexual subcultures. Unsurprisingly, the existence of sexual differences – real or imagined, feared or desired – is embedded in the functioning of ethnocultural boundaries. As the papers published in this special issue show, migration challenges such boundaries in many ways – some obvious, some counter-intuitive - and through a variety of processes. In recent years, many studies of migration-related sexual change have legitimized the importance of this topic among migration scholars. We do not have yet, however, satisfactory analytical frameworks and cumulative research programs. In this introduction to the special issue, we show how future progress may be contingent upon the capacity to distinguish among different perspectives as well as towards a more explicit discussion of the existing narratives.

  • Issue Year: 16/2019
  • Issue No: 4
  • Page Range: 473-480
  • Page Count: 8
  • Language: English