We Live Here, and We Are Queer!: Young Gay Connected Migrants’ Transnational Ties and Integration in the Netherlands
Upon arrival to Europe, young migrants are found grappling with new language demands, cultural expectations, values, and beliefs that may differ from global youth culture and their country of origin. This process of coming-of-age while on-the-move is increasingly digitally mediated. Young migrants are “connected migrants”, using smart phones and social media to maintain bonding ties with their home country while establishing new bridging relationships with peers in their country of arrival (Diminescu, 2008). Drawing on the feminist perspective of intersectionality which alerts us socio-cultura... Mehr ...
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Dokumenttyp: | Artikel |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 2019 |
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Cogitatio
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Schlagwörter: | bonding social capital / bridging social capital / connected migrants / digital diaspora / digital migration studies / forced migrants / gay / inter-ethnic social contact / sexuality / voluntary migrants |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Permalink: | https://search.fid-benelux.de/Record/base-26792057 |
Datenquelle: | BASE; Originalkatalog |
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Link(s) : | https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/1686 |