Praise for Queer Migration and Asylum in Europe
'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
Richard C. M. Mole is Professor of Political Sociology at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies, UCL.
List of tables
Contributors
Preface
Acknowledgements
1. Introduction: queering migration and asylum
2. Universal humanity vs. national citizenship: the example of same-sex partner immigration in Europe
3. ‘The gay person always looks for the big European city’: the sexual migration of Latin American gay men in London
4. Rethinking diaspora: Queer Poles, Brazilians and Russians in Berlin
5. An exercise in detachment: the Council of Europe and sexual minority asylum claims
6. On the government of bisexual bodies: asylum case law and the biopolitics of bisexual erasure
7. (Des)haciendo fronteras: Latin American LGBTIQ* asylum seekers in Spain in the process of credibility assessment
8. Between homonationalism and Islamophobia: comparing Queer Caribbean and Muslim asylum-seeking in/to the Netherlands
9. ‘They sent me to the mountain’: the role of space, faith and support groups for LGBTIQ+ asylum claimants
10. The (micro-)politics of support for LGBT asylum-seekers in France
11. ‘How much of a lesbian are you?’ Experiences of LGBT asylum seekers in immigration detention in the UK
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
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