@article{fdi:010071746, title = {{F}emininities on transnational journeys and sexual health risk : experiences of {C}hinese immigrant women in {C}anada}, author = {{M}icollier, {E}velyne}, editor = {}, language = {{ENG}}, abstract = {{N}egotiations at work in a globalising {C}hina in regard to femininity, sexuality, and family relationships have been well documented from the 1990s. {N}onetheless less is known about them in a transnational context, and femininities are far less explored than masculinities. {D}rawing on interview data from a larger research study of transnationalism and gendered {HIV} vulnerability, this article investigates the intersection of femininity, sexuality and sexual health risk through {C}hinese immigrant women's narratives about their experiences in {C}anada. {I}t examines to what extent these intimate negotiations within {C}hina are re-enacted through {C}hinese immigrant women's transnational experiences in {C}anada. {T}hese women live ‘in-between' {C}hina and {C}anada in terms of identity, space and time with their cross-cultural connections unveiling both virtual and actual relations. {G}ender norms and roles, intimate and sexual experience, and family relations are realigned in the transnational lives of these women and are impacted by both their home and host societies, as well as their past and present experience in {C}hina. {U}sed in the article as a concept and an analytical lens, gender is acknowledged as a key organising principle in post-immigration individual and social experience.}, keywords = {{FEMME} ; {IMMIGRATION} ; {SEXUALITE} ; {SIDA} ; {RELATION} {DE} {GENRE} ; {SYSTEME} {DE} {REPRESENTATIONS} ; {ANTHROPOLOGIE} {DE} {LA} {SANTE} ; {FAMILLE} ; {RISQUE} {SANITAIRE} ; {SANTE} {DE} {LA} {REPRODUCTION} ; {ORDRE} {SOCIAL} ; {CHINE} ; {CANADA}}, booktitle = {}, journal = {{G}ender, {P}lace and {C}ulture}, volume = {24}, numero = {12}, pages = {1787--1806}, ISSN = {1787-1806}, year = {2017}, DOI = {10.1080/0966369{X}.2017.1400952}, URL = {https://www.documentation.ird.fr/hor/fdi:010071746}, }