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Home is where our story begins: CALD LGBTIQ+ people’s relationships to family
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Asquith, NL and Collison, A and Lewis, L and Noonan, K and Layard, E and Kaur, G and Bellei, F and Yigiter, E, Home is where our story begins: CALD LGBTIQ+ people's relationships to family, Current Issues in Criminal Justice, 31, (3) pp. 311-332. ISSN 1034-5329 (2019) [Refereed Article]
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© 2019 Sydney Institute of Criminology
DOI: doi:10.1080/10345329.2019.1642837
Abstract
There is a lacuna in the research about LGBTIQ+ people’s
relationships to family, and in particular, their experiences of
family violence and how these experiences vary for people who
also identify as culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD). In this
paper, we explore the impact of the 2017 Australian Marriage
Equality vote on CALD LGBTIQ+ people residing in Greater
Western Sydney (GWS), which is one of the most culturally and
linguistically diverse areas of Australia, and where there was a
significant ‘no’ vote. The 14-week campaign before the Marriage
Equality vote resulted in significant social and individual trauma
and damage to existing, fraught family relationships for LGBTIQ+
Australians (Ecker & Bennett, 2017). The findings from this
research highlight that while CALD LGBTIQ+ people experience
high levels of family violence at the time of coming out and
during events such as the Marriage Equality vote, families are also
an incredible source of support when CALD LGBTIQ+ are accepted
by their families and wider communities. This paper documents
the experiences of CALD LGBTIQ+ people’s relationships and
reports on the findings from a survey with CALD LGBTIQ+ people
in GWS.
Item Details
Item Type: | Refereed Article |
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Keywords: | sexuality, gender, family violence, family relationships |
Research Division: | Human Society |
Research Group: | Criminology |
Research Field: | Causes and prevention of crime |
Objective Division: | Law, Politics and Community Services |
Objective Group: | Community services |
Objective Field: | Gender and sexualities |
UTAS Author: | Asquith, NL (Professor Nicole Asquith) |
ID Code: | 140501 |
Year Published: | 2019 |
Web of Science® Times Cited: | 4 |
Deposited By: | School of Social Sciences |
Deposited On: | 2020-08-24 |
Last Modified: | 2020-09-04 |
Downloads: | 0 |
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