Europe is a popular destination for LGBTQ people seeking to escape discrimination and persecution. Yet, while European institutions have done much to promote the legal equality of sexual minorities and a number of states pride themselves on their acceptance of sexual diversity, the image of European tolerance and the reality faced by LGBTQ migrants and asylum seekers are often quite different.
To engage with these conflicting discourses, Queer Migration and Asylum in Europe brings together scholars from politics, sociology, urban studies, anthropology and law to analyse how and why queer individuals migrate to or seek asylum in Europe, as well as the legal, social and political frameworks they are forced to navigate to feel at home or to regularise their status in the destination societies. The subjects covered include LGBTQ Latino migrants’ relationship with queer and diasporic spaces in London; diasporic consciousness of queer Polish, Russian and Brazilian migrants in Berlin; the role of the Council of Europe in shaping legal and policy frameworks relating to queer migration and asylum; the challenges facing bisexual asylum seekers; queer asylum and homonationalism in the Netherlands; and the role of space, faith and LGBTQ organisations in Germany, Italy, the UK and France in supporting queer asylum seekers.
Praise for Queer Migration and Asylum in Europe
'Chapters’ styles are accessible for different audiences. ... The exhaustive overviews of the European Court of Human Rights case law on sexuality and asylum may help judges to be better prepared to adjudicate relevant conflicts. ...Above all, the book will certainly drive scholarly discussions further.'
Migration and Society
'This book covers a variety of highly topical issues on queer migration and asylum in the European context. Comparable publications are few and far apart, so this book meets a definite need for such information.'
European Journal of Migration and Law
'an important contribution to knowledge that contributes considerably to the literature regarding the intersections of gender, sexuality, and migration.'
Journal of immigration, asylum and nationality law
Richard C. M. Mole is Professor of Political Sociology at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies, UCL.
List of figures
List of tables
Contributors
Preface
Acknowledgements
1 Introduction: queering migration and asylum
Richard C.M. Mole
2 Universal humanity vs. national citizenship: the example of same-sex partner immigration in Europe
Robert Wintemute
3 ‘The gay person always looks for the big European city’: the sexual migration of Latin American gay men in London
Cristian Valenzuela
4 Rethinking diaspora: Queer Poles, Brazilians and Russians in Berlin
Richard C.M. Mole
5 An exercise in detachment: the Council of Europe and sexual minority asylum claims Nuno Ferreira
6 On the government of bisexual bodies: asylum case law and the biopolitics of bisexual erasure
Christian Klesse
7 (Des)haciendo fronteras: Latin American LGBTIQ asylum seekers in Spain in the process of credibility assessment
Aurora Perego
8 Between homonationalism and Islamophobia: comparing Queer Caribbean and Muslim asylum-seeking in/to the Netherlands
Keith E. McNeal & Sarah French Brennan
9 ‘They sent me to the mountain’: the role of space, faith and support groups for LGBTIQ+ asylum claimants
Moira Dustin and Nina Held
10 The (micro-)politics of support for LGBT asylum-seekers in France
Sara Cesaro
11 ‘How much of a lesbian are you?’ Experiences of LGBT asylum seekers in immigration detention in the UK
Sarah Singer
Index
'an important contribution to knowledge that contributes considerably to the literature regarding the intersections of gender, sexuality, and migration.'
Journal of immigration, asylum and nationality law
European Journal of Migration and Law
Format: Hardback
Size: 234 × 156 mm
276 Pages
2 B&W illustrations
Copyright: © 2021
ISBN: 9781787355996
Publication: March 08, 2021
Series: FRINGE
Related products
Comparative Approaches to Informal Housing Around the Globe
Comparative Approaches to Informal Housing Around the Globe brings together h...
Medical Humanity and Inhumanity in the German-Speaking World
Medical Humanity and Inhumanity in the German-Speaking World is the first vol...
Redefining Russian Literary Diaspora, 1920-2020
Over the century that has passed since the start of the massive post-revoluti...
