Speaker: Professor Susanne Choi Yuk Ping (Department of Sociology at the Chinese University of Hong Kong)

Date and time: Wednesday 16 March 2022, 4-6 pm (GMT). The reception for this lecture will start at 4 pm and the talk will start at 4:30 pm.

Location: Hybrid event - Room R1.15, Ramphal Building; and online on MS Teams (the link to join the event will be sent to those registered closer to the time)

Lecture title: Global Multiple Migration: Class-Based Mobility Capital of Elite Chinese Gay Men

Abstract: The present study examines how global multiple migration—a pattern of migration characterised by multiple changes of destination internationally in one’s lifetime—becomes a strategy and a form of capital employed by highly educated, Chinese self-identified gay men to navigate social stigmatisation, negotiate family pressure, circumvent state oppression, and achieve desired life goals. By examining the intersection between sexuality, migration, and class, the present study contributes to two bodies of literature. For the migration literature, it explores how relationships between sexuality and migration are mediated by classed-based capital. It adds to the discussion that migration has increasingly become a multi-directional and open-ended process. For the class and social inequality literature, it seeks to understand how global multiple migration has become an element of social stratification and generates mobility capital. It also highlights how sexuality influences the value of mobility capital for the pursuit of an authentic self.

For more information and to register: https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/schoolforcross-facultystudies/events/scfs_public_lecture_series_susanne/Link opens in a new window