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Abbey, Matthew (2023) Beyond intelligibility : the hauntings of queer migration. Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power, 30 (2). pp. 198-216. doi:10.1080/1070289X.2021.2003110 ISSN 1547-3384.
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Official URL: http://doi.org/10.1080/1070289X.2021.2003110
Abstract
This article explores the haunting aspects of queer migration within two documentary films: Season of Migration to the North (Laumann 2015), a film about a queer Sudanese migrant who fled to Norway after hosting a fashion show, and Shelter: Farewell to Eden (Masi 2019), a film about a Filipino transgender migrant navigating European borders. Instead of focusing on how the films make the protagonists intelligible, I focus on how absences are conjured to question the necessity of making the subject intelligible. This is important because queer migrants are often framed as only victims of persecution who must become intelligible to the demands of sexual humanitarianism. Disrupting the way visibility is heralded as an achievement for queer migrants, I explore the importance of unintelligibility in migration, especially when the terms of appearance are controlled by not only norms surrounding sexuality, gender, race, and class but also the violence of European borders.
| Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||
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| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HQ The family. Marriage. Woman | ||||||||
| Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Sociology | ||||||||
| Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Homosexuality -- Social aspects, Emigration and immigration -- Social aspects, Refugees -- Legal status, laws, etc., Asylum, Right of, Sexual minority political refugees -- Legal status, laws, etc., Migration, Sexual minority political refugees, Gay immigrants, Gay rights | ||||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power | ||||||||
| Publisher: | Taylor and Francis | ||||||||
| ISSN: | 1547-3384 | ||||||||
| Official Date: | 2023 | ||||||||
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| Volume: | 30 | ||||||||
| Number: | 2 | ||||||||
| Page Range: | pp. 198-216 | ||||||||
| DOI: | 10.1080/1070289X.2021.2003110 | ||||||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||
| Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||
| Reuse Statement (publisher, data, author rights): | This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power on 14 Mov 2021, available online: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/1070289X.2021.2003110 | ||||||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||||
| Date of first compliant deposit: | 15 November 2021 | ||||||||
| Date of first compliant Open Access: | 14 May 2023 |
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