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“How do I prove I’m gay?” This is the central question for many refugee claimants who are claiming asylum on the basis of sexual orientation persecution. But what are the inherent challenges in obtaining this proof? How is the system that assesses this predicated upon homonormative frameworks and nervous borders? What is the impact of gender, race and class? What is an ‘authentic’ sexual or gender identity and how can it be performed?
Real Queer? is an ethnographic examination of the Canadian refugee apparatus analysing the social, cultural, political and affective dimensions of a legal and bureaucratic process predicated on separating the ‘authentic’ from the ‘bogus’ LGBT refugee. Through interviews, conversations and participant observation with various participants ranging from refugee claimants to their lawyers, Refugee Protection Division staff and local support group workers, it reveals the ways in which sexuality simultaneously disrupts and is folded into the nation-state’s dynamic modes of gate-keeping, citizenship and identity-making, and the uneven effects of these discourses and practices on this category of transnational migrants.
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Real Queer?: Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Refugees in the Canadian Refugee Apparatus
2015, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Incorporated
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1783484411 9781783484416
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Real Queer: Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Refugees in the Canadian Refugee Apparatus
2015, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Incorporated, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
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178348439X 9781783484393
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Real Queer?: Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Refugees in the Canadian Refugee Apparatus
2015, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Incorporated
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1783484403 9781783484409
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