Despite the increasing legalization trend, same-sex marriage remains inaccessible to couples in most countries. Such exclusions, however, can be circumvented by migrants who, in the process, also negotiate diverse and even divergent meanings of marriage embedded in different socio-institutional contexts. This study examines such diverse meanings of marriage among LGB transnational migrants based on biographic narrative interviews with nine individuals married to same-sex partners in Belgium and the Netherlands and coming from Central and Eastern European countries with constitutional protection of heterosexual marriage. The study highlights the negotiations of intimate relationships in the context of the new institutional opportunity of marriage and stresses how the similarities between migrants and non-migrants testify to the strengthening of same-sex marriage as a social institution. Focusing further on migrants' unique experiences of marriage in divergent socio-institutional contexts, this study also shows how same-sex marriage empowers LGB migrants even where it is (still) not available.

尽管合法化趋势日益增强，但在大多数国家/地区，同性婚姻仍然无法为夫妻所用。然而，移民可以规避这种排斥，他们在此过程中也协商了嵌入在不同社会制度背景下的不同甚至不同的婚姻含义。本研究基于对与比利时和荷兰的同性伴侣结婚并来自中欧和东欧国家对异性恋婚姻进行宪法保护的九个人的传记叙事访谈，研究了 LGB 跨国移民中婚姻的这种不同含义。该研究强调了在婚姻的新制度机会背景下亲密关系的谈判，并强调了移民和非移民之间的相似性如何证明同性婚姻作为一种社会制度的加强。本研究进一步关注移民在不同社会制度背景下的独特婚姻经历，还展示了同性婚姻如何赋予 LGB 移民权力，即使它（仍然）不可用。