Migrant Intimacies: Mobilities-in-Difference and Basue Tactics in Queer Asian Diasporas

Abstract

With a focus on the productive tensions of displacements and agency, this article discusses archival traces of intimacy and tactics of space-making that mobilize queer Asianmen in the diaspora. The theoretical considerations and ethnographic examples offered highlight how ephemeral experiencesof sociality and belonging reveal the persistent labour of reconstituting the lifeworlds of queer Asian migrant subjects againstdisplacements—from city streets, to a video website, to a commuter train, to a night market—and argues for a rethinkingof the meaning of politics in mobilities research through themodalities of survival and mobilities-in-difference.

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