Unpacking the Meanings of a ‘Normal Life’ Among Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Eastern European Migrants in Scotland
Unpacking the Meanings of a ‘Normal Life’ Among Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Eastern European Migrants in Scotland
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解开苏格兰女同性恋、男同性恋、双性恋和跨性别东欧移民“正常生活”的意义
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2018
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Anna Gawlewicz
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F. Stella;M. Flynn;Anna Gawlewicz
本文探讨了来自中东欧和前苏联的女同性恋、男同性恋、双性恋和跨性别者（LGBT）移民在苏格兰的经历。借鉴与50名移民的采访，文章的重点是他们表达的经验和愿望，作为“正常生活”的一部分，并分析他们在更广泛的概念理解的安全和“正常”。我们首先研究如何正常等同于在苏格兰的经济地位的改善，并看看在这种情况下产生的情感安全感和幸福感的方式。然后，我们探讨如何围绕性和性别认同的更积极的经验是情绪安全感的关键-即感觉被接受为“正常”，作为一个LGBT的人，但“融入”，而不是因为它而脱颖而出。被参与者视为在社会中有正常化的效果，导致更广泛的包容和平等感-再次发现，直接影响参与者自己的安全感和情感幸福感。文章从事移民和性文学，并提供了一个原始的贡献：通过其重点性，这仍然是在辩论中未探讨的“正常”和移民在英国;并通过将移民的角度来辩论性研究围绕正常化的影响，在整个欧洲的法律。通过将这两个视角结合起来，我们揭示了性与参与者生活的其他关键领域之间的相互关系，以便更好地了解他们的移徙和定居经历。
This article explores the experiences of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) migrants from Central and Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union in Scotland. Drawing on interviews with 50 migrants, the article focuses on the experiences and aspirations which they articulate as being part of ‘a normal life’, and analyses them within broader conceptual understandings of security and ‘normality’. We first examine how normality is equated with an improved economic position in Scotland, and look at the ways in which this engenders feelings of emotional security and well-being. We then explore how more positive experiences around sexuality and gender identity are key to a sense of emotional security – i.e. of feeling accepted as ‘normal’, being visible as an LGBT person but ‘blending in’ rather than standing out because of it. Finally we look at the ways in which the institutional framework in Scotland, in particular the presence of LGBT-affirmative legislation, is seen by participants to have a normalising effect within society, leading to a broader sense of inclusion and equality – found, again, to directly impact upon participants’ own feelings of security and emotional well-being. The article engages with literatures on migration and sexuality and provides an original contribution to both: through its focus upon sexuality, which remains unexplored in debates on ‘normality’ and migration in the UK; and by bringing a migration perspective to the debates in sexuality studies around the normalising effect of the law across Europe. By bringing these two perspectives together, we reveal the inter-relationship between sexuality and other key spheres of our participants’ lives in order to better understand their experiences of migration and settlement.