ABSTRACT
Building on ‘transnationalism’, C. M. Klapeer and P. Laskar attend to the theoretical exchange between transnational migration research, critical sexuality studies, and queer scholarship. This chapter explores how sexuality shapes Chinese queer immigrants’ migration and settlement processes (including transnational ties), illustrating its important, yet not determining, role in their post-immigration lives. The transnational sexuality under study also demonstrates the broader structural forces (e.g. immigrant integration and racism) beyond a sexuality-centric conception of ‘queer migration’, as well as transnational dynamics beyond the North-South dichotomy. Transforming sexuality from a local experience into a transnational process, international migration has also changed the dynamics and meanings of sexuality. Like the initial immigration decision, movement back and forth between China and Canada rested on and involved a mixture of sexuality-related and economic considerations. Sexuality in the context of globalisation has been largely understood through a Western- or Northern-centric lens.
