Queer Liberalisms and Marginal Mobilities

1. Auflage 2026
ISBN: 978-1-041-19592-4
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 188 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm

Reihe: Ethnic and Racial Studies

This book addresses queer migration through the intersectional lens of queer liberalisms, authoritarianism, and marginal mobilities. Globally, LGBTIQ+ rights form an inherent part of human rights discourse and politics. At the same time, this very human rights language is increasingly used by nation-states to defend their borders, control migration flows, and intensify discrimination and prejudice against the "other". Queer migration scholarship has therefore maintained a critical approach to such forms of national queer liberalism which risk marginalizing LGBTIQ+ refugees, migrants, and asylum-seekers. The aim of this book is to unpack the tenuous relationship between politics of queer liberalisms and securitization within contested political contexts in the Global South and North by thinking about the ways in which the precarity of marginal mobilities for LGBTIQ+ persons on the move is produced within different (trans-) national contexts.

This volume is essential reading for scholars, researchers, and graduate students in migration studies, queer and gender studies, human rights, and international relations. It offers valuable insights for policymakers, NGO professionals, and activists working at the intersection of LGBTIQ+ rights and migration. The book covers critical subject areas including transnational queer politics, border securitization, asylum processes, human rights frameworks, and the lived experiences of LGBTIQ+ migrants navigating hostile political environments across global contexts.

The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of Ethnic and Racial Studies.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate, Undergraduate Advanced, and Undergraduate Core

Autoren/Hrsg.

Saleh, Fadi

Tschalar, Mengia

Tschalär, Mengia

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziologie von Migranten und Minderheiten
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies: Homosexualität, LGBTQ+

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: queer liberalisms and marginal mobilities 1. Trans-asylum: sanctioning vulnerability and gender identity across the frontier 2. Queer mobilities and the work of messy survival 3. Queering migration temporalities: LGBTQI+ experiences with waiting within Germany’s asylum system 4. Is queer-and-trans youth homelessness a form of displacement? A queer epistemological review of refugee studies’ theoretical borders 5. Sexual citizenship, pride parades, and queer migrant Im/Mobilities 6. “As queer refugees, we are out of category, we do not belong to one, or the other”: LGBTIQ+ refugees’ experiences in “ambivalent” queer spaces 7. LGBTQ+ asylum and transformative accommodations between religion, faith and sexuality in the UK 8. Beyond queer liberalism: marginal mobilities and the future of queer politics

Über Autor(innen)

Fadi Saleh holds a PhD in Cultural Anthropology from the University of Göttingen, Germany. His work—spanning both scholarship and activism—centers on queer migration, humanitarianism, and the histories and politics of queer and trans* communities, with particular attention to Syria/Turkey and their global entanglements.

Mengia Tschalär (PhD) is Adjunct Professor of Anthropology and Law and Society at John Jay College of Criminal Justice (CUNY). Her research focuses on the intersection of gender, sexuality, migration, and LGBTQI+ rights and has appeared in leading peer-reviewed journals and informed numerous policy briefs. She is the co-founder of the Queer European Asylum Network.