Durkac, Samuel (2023) A post-structural qualitative analysis of queer desired health and its effect on queer migration. Bachelor thesis.
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Abstract
This paper conducts a literature review of the theoretical intersections of research in migration, health, and queer geographies and identifies a lack of academic understanding in the intersection of all three bodies of research. In order to find a non-cisheteronormative post-structural agency-driven rationale that could explain the effect of queer identity on desired health, desired health’s effect on queer migration, and the capability of queer migrants of attaining said health through healthcare, a set of semi-structured in-depth interviews with queer migrants was conducted. This paper makes use of a desire-production mechanism allowing participants to define their own conceptualization of health, within queer identity that constitutes agency in a structure-agency dialectic. Using Grounded theory inductive methodology, guided by the participant’s voiced desire, various concepts of health, as well as desired healthcare and capabilities emerged from the data. Participants identified that queer identity has a determining role in their desired health, which includes mental and social health, as well as physical health including gender affirmation. Wanting to attain this desired health through healthcare, it either motivated their decision to migrate or played a role in destination choice. Finally, participants identified detriments to capability of achieving their desired health related to queer and migrant identities.
| Item Type: | Thesis (Bachelor) |
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| Degree programme: | Human Geography and Planning |
| Supervisor: | Haisma, H.H. and Frentz-Gollnitz, M. |
| Date Deposited: | 28 Jul 2023 11:34 |
| Last Modified: | 28 Jul 2023 11:34 |
| URI: | https://frw.studenttheses.ub.rug.nl/id/eprint/4220 |
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