The Sexual Politics of Asylum

Giametta, Calogero

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“…Identity issues are central to the state management of queer migration. Asking for 'outer signs' of gayness is an inherently contentious request, which has been amply criticised by queer asylum scholarship (Giametta 2017). Operative state categories for homosexuality have been infused with Western clichés relative to gay culture and have tended to reduce true homosexuality to one that ties acts to identity (Fassin and Salcedo 2015).…”

Section: Methods and National Contextsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Until recently, the migration of lesbians and gays had mostly been studied under the rubric of queer asylum, which was the main legal route through which they could access international mobility as sexual minorities. The queer asylum literature has grown in the past two decades as many Western states dramatically shifted from homophobic policies to ones casting queer migrants as victims exceptionally deserving of access (Luibhéid 2008a;Millbank 2009;Spijkerboer 2013;Giametta 2014Giametta , 2017Lewis 2014;Mai 2014;Shakhsari 2014;Shuman and Hesford 2014;Vogler 2016;Hertoghs and Schinkel 2018). This literature can thus inform our critical assessment of the construction of queer mobility and migratory deservingness in the case of queer marriage migration.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…This literature can thus inform our critical assessment of the construction of queer mobility and migratory deservingness in the case of queer marriage migration. Yet the queer asylum literature has mostly developed separately from family migration (for exceptions, see Lewis 2014;Fassin and Salcedo 2015;Giametta 2017). Although lesbian and gay refugees did previously attempt to migrate as couples (Dauvergne and Millbank 2003) or to sponsor their left-behind partners after they had obtained refugee status, their pre-existing relationships had remained unregistered (and often were the very cause of their persecution), making same-sex family unification unavailable de facto even in countries that formally offered that possibility (Sußner 2013).…”

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Class, mobility and inequality in the lives of same-sex couples with mixed legal statuses

Chauvin

Robledo²,

Koren

et al. 2019

Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies

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Seeking to overcome the heterosexual bias in marriage-migration scholarship and move beyond individualistic approaches to queer mobility, this article focuses on the lives of same-sex couples that hold unequal residence statuses. In a twofold context marked by the increasing legal recognition of same-sex families combined with heightened hurdles facing certain categories of immigrants, we examine what those simultaneous trends mean for these couples. Based on 42 interviews conducted in France, the Netherlands and the United States with people from a variety of class backgrounds, we show how higher resource levels moderate the impact of constraining legal frameworks without suppressing them. We distinguish between low-resource homogamous, heterogamous, and high-resource homogamous couples. The first configuration often results in forced immobility and separation. In heterogamous couples, conjugality becomes a major pathway to legal status for the migrant spousepotentially feeding suspicions of instrumentality. In contrast, privileged migrants in a homogamous couple tend to relate to law in less of a binary way and experience regulations as more easily surmountable. Yet, for them, securing permanent residence represents but one objective among several (including their careers and studies), an investment often disconnected from their matrimonial relationship and at times in competition with it.

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Class, mobility and inequality in the lives of same-sex couples with mixed legal statuses

Chauvin

Robledo²,

Koren

et al. 2019

Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies

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“…A substantial body of scholarly work explores the ways in which these politics of selection and stratification, even when they only seem based on skill, labour shortages and apparently economic concerns, are shaped by conceptions of national identity, race and postcolonial relations (Laurens, ; Paul, , ). Increasingly, attention has also been paid to the role of constructions of gender and sexuality in shaping immigration politics (Luibheid, ; Bonjour & De Hart, ; Boucher, ; Giametta, ). While intersectional approaches to the analysis of immigration policies are thus on the rise, the role of social class, and its intertwinement with other axes of inequality in policy considerations, has remained underexplored.…”

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Social Class, Migration Policy and Migrant Strategies: An Introduction

Bonjour

Chauvin

2018

International Migration

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The introduction to this special issue traces class at the interface between migration policy and migrant strategies. Scholarship on the politics of migration and citizenship has thus far largely neglected class. In contrast, we contend that discourses on migration, integration and citizenship are inevitably classed. Assessed through seemingly heterogeneous criteria of "merit" and "performance", class serves as an analytical connector between economic and identity rationales which intersect in all migration policies, including those regulating family and humanitarian admission. Class-selective policy frames can function as constraints maintaining some aspiring migrants into immobility or channeling different groups of migrants into separate and unequal incorporation routes. Yet, policy frames can also serve as resources to strategize with as migrants navigate and perform gendered and classed expectations embedded into receivingcountry migration regimes. We conclude that connecting policy with migrant strategies is key to reintroducing class without naturalizing classed strategies of mobility.

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“…Studies have highlighted refugees´experiences in liminal spaces, such as detention centres, refugee camps, and asylum accommodation. One of the key insights from these works is how refugees endure liminality in state-controlled spaces (Mountz, 2011;Ramadan, 2013) where identities and behaviour become regulated, such as through sexual regimes in migration processes (Akin, 2017;Giametta, 2017;McPhail, McNulty, & Hutchings, 2016;Mühleisen, Røthing, & Svendsen, 2012;Murray, 2014aMurray, , 2014bShuman & Bohmer, 2014;Wimark & Hedlund, 2017). However, migration studies have also hinted at the possibility of refugees enduring liminality outside of statecontrolled spaces (Mountz, Coddington, Catania, & Loyd, 2013).…”

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Homemaking and perpetual liminality among queer refugees

Wimark

2019

Social & Cultural Geography

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As people continue to flee repressive regimes, discussions of refugees' state of liminality have intensified. Refugee camps and detention centres tend to force refugees to endure living in liminality for long periods of time. Taking fleeing as a point of departure, this study suggests a change from the notion of fleeing as movement to a search for home and homemaking. This understanding shifts the analysis away from state-controlled spaces to a wider consideration of spaces of importance for homemaking. Widening the discussion on liminality to homemaking indicates that liminality can be experienced in a variety of spaces. Using material from interviews with queer refugees in the Swedish countryside, I discuss their travels, displacements and homemaking. Their stories show that creating a home is a continuous process delimited by norms in families, ethnic networks, host societies and queer networks. Not adhering to these norms renders homemaking difficult and pushes some queer refugees to liminal spaces. Thus, I suggest an understanding of some queer refugees as constantly rejected and pushed into a perpetual state of liminal homemaking. An analysis that illuminates refugees' displacements from belonging moves discussions of liminality away from statecontrolled spaces and highlights the norms that govern the homemaking process. Faire son chez-soi et liminalité perpétuelle chez les réfugiés queer RÉSUMÉ Alors que les peuples ne cessent de fuir les régimes répressifs, les débats sur l'état de liminalité des réfugiés se sont intensifiés. Les camps de réfugiés et centres de détention ont tendance à forcer les réfugiés à endurer un état de vie liminaire pendant de longues périodes. Prenant comme point de départ la notion de fuite, cette étude suggère de penser la fuite non comme mouvement mais comme quête d'un chez-soi. Cette interprétation fait glisser l'analyse au-delà de la question des espaces contrôlés par l'État vers une considération des espaces importants pour la fabrique d'un chez-soi. Élargir la discussion sur la liminalité à la fabrique d'un chez-soi signifie que la liminalité peut être vécue au travers une variété d'espaces. À l'aide d'entretiens avec des réfugiés queer ARTICLE HISTORY

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The Sexual Politics of Asylum

Cited by 47 publications

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Class, mobility and inequality in the lives of same-sex couples with mixed legal statuses

Class, mobility and inequality in the lives of same-sex couples with mixed legal statuses

Social Class, Migration Policy and Migrant Strategies: An Introduction

Homemaking and perpetual liminality among queer refugees

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