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Real Queer? - Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Refugees in the Canadian Refugee Apparatus (Hardcover)
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Real Queer? - Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Refugees in the Canadian Refugee Apparatus (Hardcover)
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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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