Globalization, defined here as the increasing interconnectedness of the world, along with shifting socio-political and economic landscapes predominantly in the Global South culminate into increased transnational labour migration processes. These transnational processes call for new interpretations and conceptualizations of gender and sexuality with respect to notions of intimacy, relationships and identities in the diaspora. Drawing on interviews with 28 Zimbabwean women (14 living in the diaspora and 14 resident in Zimbabwe) aged between 25 and 90 years, this paper analyses ways in which transnational processes influence how women experience and assign meaning to their gendered and sexual lives. The 14 diaspora-based interviewees illuminated how Zimbabwean women located in South Africa and the UK often redefine their gendered and sexual identities as they exercise agency by challenging economic barriers and simultaneously crossing socio-cultural boundaries from their homeland. Conversely, the 14 Zimbabwe-based interviewees discussed how women from a different generation and geographical location read emerging questions of gender and sexuality in the diaspora. Overall, the paper offers profound gendered lenses through which one could analyse the dynamics of transnational processes, especially how labour, intimacy and relationships in the diaspora are experienced by immigrants and subsequently engaged by diaspora studies scholars.

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跨国劳务移民、亲密关系和关系：津巴布韦妇女如何驾驭侨民

全球化，这里定义为世界日益相互联系，随着主要在全球南方的社会政治和经济格局的变化，最终导致跨国劳务移民过程的增加。这些跨国进程要求对侨民中的亲密关系、关系和身份的概念进行新的性别和性的解释和概念化。通过对 28 名年龄在 25 至 90 岁之间的津巴布韦妇女（14 名散居海外和 14 名津巴布韦居民）的访谈，本文分析了跨国过程影响妇女如何体验和赋予其性别和性生活意义的方式。14 位散居海外的受访者阐明了位于南非和英国的津巴布韦妇女如何通过挑战经济障碍并同时跨越家乡的社会文化界限来行使代理权，从而重新定义她们的性别和性身份。相反，津巴布韦的 14 位受访者讨论了来自不同世代和不同地理位置的女性如何解读散居国外的新出现的性别和性问题。总的来说，这篇论文提供了深刻的性别视角，通过它人们可以分析跨国过程的动态，特别是移民如何体验侨民中的劳动、亲密关系和关系，并随后被侨民研究学者参与其中。