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Gender Migration: A Sociological Analysis (or the Leaving of Liverpool)

University of Liverpool, UK

This article argues that gender reassignment is best conceptualized for sociological purposes as gender migration, drawing parallels with the process of geographical migration. Both gender and geographical migrants often see themselves as beginning a new life; social membership and identity has to be reworked and negotiated; a new way of life has to be learnt; the old one has to be left behind. Migrants of both kinds are often regarded as undesirable and threatening; the legitimacy of settlement in the new country/gender may be denied; the granting of citizenship and other rights may be refused. The consequence may be that the migrant permanently occupies a position of marginality rather than full integration.

Key Words: citizenship • migration • sex-change • transgenderism • transsexualism

Sexualities, Vol. 6, No. 2, 173-194 (2003)
DOI: 10.1177/1363460703006002002


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