The ethics of welcome in place: LGBTQ+ migrants to South Australia
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2025
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Cover, R.
Prosser, R.
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Continuum, 2025
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Rob Cover and Rosslyn Prosser
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This article presents findings from an Australian Research Council Linkage Project investigating LGBTQ+ memory, migration and collecting institution practices. One component of the study interviewed people living in South Australia who had migrated (internally within the country) to Adelaide. Interviews were analysed to understand the community, cultural and interdependency conditions that made mobility towards a smaller Australian city feasible, in contrast to the everyday myth that LGBTQ+ persons were more likely to gather in the major East Coast urban areas. This paper discusses and analyses the ways in which participants described their experience of feeling ‘welcome’ and the reasons why they found Adelaide a ‘welcoming’ environment in which to settle. Several key reasons for ‘feeling’ welcome were discerned, including the progressive socio-political environment and law reform of the 1970’s and 1980’s and the sense of inclusivity in public life, the arts and urban space of a smaller city. We analyse these findings from a perspective attentive to the ethics of interdependency, and demonstrate the ways in which an ethics of ‘welcome’ operates outside interpersonal behaviours and can be performed through the infrastructural and cultural setting of the place of arrival.
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Published online: 16 Oct 2025.
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© 2025 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, and is not altered, transformed, or built upon in any way. The terms on which this article has been published allow the posting of the Accepted Manuscript in a repository by the author(s) or with their consent.