Real Queer: "Authentic" LGBT Refugee Claimants and Homonationalism in the Canadian Refugee System

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  • David A. B. Murray York University

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refugees, sexuality, immigration, nationalism, Canada

Résumé

Since the early 1990s, Canada has become a primary
destination for individuals who make refugee claims on the
basis of sexual orientation persecution. Based on interviews
with lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) identified
refugee claimants, social workers and refugee lawyers in
Toronto, I argue that LGBT refugees and those who work
with them are enmeshed in a system predicated upon highly
malleable, historically and socio-politically specific sexual terms
and identities that privilege particular gendered, classed and
raced interests and, thus, place LGBT refugees from non
North American societies in a particularly vulnerable position.

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2014-04-30

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Murray, D. A. B. (2014). Real Queer: "Authentic" LGBT Refugee Claimants and Homonationalism in the Canadian Refugee System. Anthropologica, 56(1), 21–32. Consulté à l’adresse https://cas-sca.journals.uvic.ca/index.php/anthropologica/article/view/628

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