relation: https://frw.studenttheses.ub.rug.nl/4220/
title: A post-structural qualitative analysis of queer desired health and its effect on queer migration
creator: Durkac, Samuel
description: 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.
date: 2023
type: Thesis
type: NonPeerReviewed
format: text
language: en
identifier: https://frw.studenttheses.ub.rug.nl/4220/1/S.Durkac%20-%20A%20post-structural%20analysis%20of%20queer%20desired%20health%20and%20its%20effect%20on%20queer%20migration%20-%20Bachelor%27s%20project%20final.pdf
identifier:   Durkac, Samuel  (2023) A post-structural qualitative analysis of queer desired health and its effect on queer migration.  Bachelor thesis.