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This book challenges the resounding scholarly silence about the lives of migrant women who identify as lesbian, queer, or nonheteronormative. Reworking social science methodologies and theories, the essays explore the experiences of migrant Latina lesbians in Los Angeles; Latina lesbians whose transnational lives span the borders between the United States and Mexico; non-heteronormative migrant Muslim women in Norway and Denmark; economically privileged Chinese lesbian or lala women in Australia; and Iranian lesbian asylum-seekers in Turkey. The authors show how state migration controls and multiple institutions of power try to subjectify and govern migrant lesbians in often contradictory ways, and how migrant lesbians cope, strategize, and respond.0The essays complicate and rework binaries of visibility/invisibility, in/out, victim/agent, home/homeless, and belonging/unbelonging. Tellability emerges as a technology of power and violence, and conversely, as a mode of healing, (re)building a sense of self and connection to others, and creating conditions for livability and queer world-making.0This book was first published as a special issue of the Journal of Lesbian Studies.

Sexual minority political refugees --- Women refugees --- Sexual minority immigrants --- Lesbians --- Social conditions --- Social conditions --- Social conditions --- Social conditions

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The idea that a claim for international protection can be rejected on the basis that the claimant behave 'discreetly' in their country of origin has remained resilient in asylum claims based on sexual orientation, but also other grounds of claim. This is significant because requiring an asylum-seeker to forgo the reason for which they are persecuted questions the very rationale of refugee protection. This book represents the first principled examination of concealment in refugee law. Janna Wessels connects the different strands of the long-standing debate in both common and civil law jurisdictions and scholarship concerning the question of whether and under which circumstances a claimant must conceal to avoid persecution. In so doing, Wessels uncovers a fundamental tension at the core of the refugee concept. By using sexuality as a lens, this study breaks new ground regarding sexual orientation claims and wider issues surrounding the refugee definition.

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Woran machen Asylrichter*innen fest, ob Geflüchtete »wirklich« schwul oder lesbisch sind? Wer hat die Macht zu definieren, was Homosexualität bedeutet und unter welchen Umständen sie im Sinne des Flüchtlingsrechts schutzwürdig ist? Katharina Schoenes geht diesen Fragen aus der Perspektive der Gender und Queer Studies sowie der Rassismusforschung nach. Dabei rekonstruiert sie das in Asylentscheidungen verwendete Wissen und ordnet es historisch ein. Dies verschafft Einblicke in die bislang kaum erforschten Erfahrungen und Sichtweisen von Asylrichter*innen - und leistet einen wichtigen Beitrag zur Rechtssoziologie.

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Die 2015 einsetzende »Willkommenskultur« in Deutschland wird vielen Aktiven als Sternstunde zivilgesellschaftlichen Engagements im Gedächtnis bleiben. Zugleich war und ist die Teilhabe von Geflüchteten umkämpft und es fallen viele rassistische Übergriffe und Anschläge in die Zeit nach dem »Sommer der Migration«. Die Beiträger*innen des Bandes liefern auf Grundlage von über 160 Interviews mit Geflüchteten, zivilgesellschaftlichen Organisationen und staatlichen Stellen eine reflektierte Bestandsaufnahme und Interpretation dieser Phase. Ihr empirisch differenzierter und vielschichtiger Überblick bietet theoretische Impulse zu Debatten um Mikropolitiken des Engagements, Solidarität und ein alltagszentriertes Demokratieverständnis.

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