5th ISA Forum of Sociology (6-11 July 2025)

This session seeks to tackle recent changes of a particular intersectional topic such as sexuality, racism, and migration. Tolerance regarding sexual minorities prevalent in the global North is often not accepted in the global South. Moreover, sexuality as a heterosexual practice may be limited to married couples. However, migrants from the global South migrating to the global North are faced with more tolerant practices. This triggers conflictual situation in transnational migrations between the two zones. How are resolved these situations by women and men? Can one find changes in sexual roles of women and men who migrate? Are they exposed to marginalization in the South? What about differences according to inequality patterns? Are there differences in social transformations among better situated groups and less favoured groups? How does the social majority react in different countries? What about racialized practices in bi-cultural transnational couples? For this session, we encourage papers based on theoretical approaches utilized in empirical case studies from a wide array of countries responding to the outlined field of research.