LGBTQ Migration
Illustrated by Victoria Lee
LGBTQ people frequently move to more supportive countries or regions to escape stigma and to achieve identity-based freedom, yet little is known about the health risks and resiliencies that LGBTQ migrants face.
A better understanding of the motivations for migration and LGBTQ migrants' experiences can help us identify how migration places some LGBTQ people at particular risk of adverse health outcomes.
We consider these questions in the US (e.g., with LGBTQ asylum seekers), and internationally (e.g., with LGBTQ migrants from the Middle East). In particular, we seek to understand the relationships among motivations for migration, intersectional stressors, and mental and sexual health.
Publications
2021
- Structural stigma and sexual minority men's depression and suicidality: A multilevel examination of mechanisms and mobility across 48 countries.Pachankis JE, Hatzenbuehler ML, Bränström R, Schmidt AJ, Berg RC, Jonas K, Pitoňák M, Baros S, Weatherburn P. J Abnorm Psychol. 2021 Oct. PMID: 34780228.
2020
- Minority stress, social integration, and the mental health needs of LGBTQ asylum seekers in North America.Fox SD, Griffin RH, Pachankis JE. Soc Sci Med. 2020 Feb; 2019 Dec 13. PMID: 31881451.
2017
- Anti-LGBT and Anti-immigrant Structural Stigma: An Intersectional Analysis of Sexual Minority Men's HIV Risk When Migrating to or Within Europe.Pachankis JE, Hatzenbuehler ML, Berg RC, Fernández-Dávila P, Mirandola M, Marcus U, Weatherburn P, Schmidt AJ. J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr. 2017 Dec 1. PMID: 28787329.
- 'The big ole gay express': sexual minority stigma, mobility and health in the small city.Keene DE, Eldahan AI, White Hughto JM, Pachankis JE. Cult Health Sex. 2017 Mar; 2016 Sep 8. PMID: 27604293.
2016
- New to New York: Ecological and Psychological Predictors of Health Among Recently Arrived Young Adult Gay and Bisexual Urban Migrants.Pachankis JE, Eldahan AI, Golub SA. Ann Behav Med. 2016 Oct. PMID: 27094938.