Gender Studies Programme, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong.
J Aging Stud. 2022 Mar;60:100980. doi: 10.1016/j.jaging.2021.100980. Epub 2021 Nov 23.
This paper focuses on ageing non-heterosexual migrants, an understudied group, in order to contribute to two emerging strands of research literature in ageing studies: ageing migrants and non-heterosexual ageing. This paper draws on the narrative of a 60-year-old partnered gay man, Oliver, who is originally from the UK and had lived in Hong Kong for more than 20 years at the time of the interview. Oliver's experiences as an ageing non-heterosexual migrant embody both privilege and vulnerability. For him, white privilege acts as a shield against homophobia and ageism. However, although he feels cultural and social belonging to Hong Kong, his same-sex relationship is not legally recognised in Hong Kong. This produces anxiety about future care and end-of-life concerns for him and his Asian partner, as he decides between staying in Hong Kong and returning home to the UK for greater legal recognition of his same-sex relationship. Such findings highlight diversity among ageing migrants, and coexistence of privilege and vulnerability in the lives of non-heterosexuals who age outside of their country of origin. This paper also contributes to the literature on non-heterosexual ageing by adding an understudied diasporic perspective, and on sexual migration by highlighting the life course perspective to show that sexual minority migrants' experience is stratified by age. This paper argues that global sexual citizenship is an increasingly relevant theoretical concept in an era of unequal sexual rights development around the world. Social policies have largely overlooked the later life concerns of ageing non-heterosexual migrants, where a lack of legal recognition of their same-sex relationship has them left without policy protection.
本文聚焦于老龄化的非异性恋移民这一研究较少的群体，旨在为老龄化研究中两个新兴的研究文献领域做出贡献：移民老龄化和非异性恋老龄化。本文借鉴了一位 60 岁的同性恋伴侣奥利弗（Oliver）的叙述，他来自英国，在接受采访时已经在香港生活了 20 多年。作为一名老龄化的非异性恋移民，奥利弗的经历既体现了特权，也体现了脆弱性。对他来说，白人特权可以作为抵御恐同和年龄歧视的盾牌。然而，尽管他对香港有文化和社会归属感，但他的同性关系在香港并不合法。这让他和他的亚裔伴侣对未来的护理和临终关怀感到焦虑，因为他需要在留在香港和返回英国之间做出选择，以获得他同性关系的更大法律认可。这些发现突出了老龄化移民的多样性，以及非异性恋者在原籍国以外的生活中特权和脆弱性的共存。本文还通过增加一个研究较少的侨民视角，为非异性恋老龄化的文献做出了贡献，并通过突出生命历程视角，为性移民增添了新的视角，表明性少数移民的经历因年龄而异。本文认为，在全球范围内性权利发展不平等的时代，全球性行为公民身份是一个日益相关的理论概念。社会政策在很大程度上忽视了老龄化非异性恋移民的晚年关怀，他们的同性关系得不到法律认可，使他们缺乏政策保护。
