Abstract
Drawing on life-history interviews conducted with Chinese intranational migrant gay men in Shenzhen, a rising migrant metropolis in South China, this article examines the pathways of Chinese intranational sexual migration, with a special focus on the state’s complicated role. I identify three patterns of migration pathway—circular, transitory, and permanent migration—to capture the tempo-spatial complexity in the Chinese gay men’s migratory trajectories. These categories suggest the important role played by migrants’ sexuality and class in shaping their migration pathways. They also allow me to observe how China’s state-sponsored rural-urban divide entangles with Shenzhen’s population governance policies in shaping the Chinese migrant gay men’s lived experiences and migration pathways in tempo-spatial terms. By emphasizing the state’s complicated role, this article opens up possibilities to theorize sexual migration from a Southern perspective.
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