Gray, J and Baynham, M (2020) Narratives of Queer Migration. In: Hall, K and Barrett, R, (eds.) The Oxford Handbook of Language and Sexuality. Oxford University Press ISBN 9780190212926
Abstract
This chapter considers the phenomenon of queer migration from a linguistic perspective, paying particular attention to the constitutive role of spatial mobility in narrative and its role in the construction of queer migrant identities. The chapter begins by looking at the way in which queer migration has been discussed in the literature and then moves on to address three different types of queer migration in greater depth: migration within national borders from the village/countryside to the city; migration between cities in member states within the context of the European Union; and finally, asylum-seeking within the context of migration from the Global South to the Global North. The chapter concludes by suggesting that queer migration is a complex phenomenon in which the intersection of sexuality, gender identity, desire, affect, abjection, economic necessity, class, politics, and fear for one’s life combine in ways that are unique in the lives of individual migrants.
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Item Type: | Book Section |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © Oxford University Press, 2018. All Rights Reserved. Reproduced in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy. |
Keywords: | asylum-seeking, narrative, queer migration, spatial mobility, the city |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Education, Social Sciences and Law (Leeds) > School of Education (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 07 Aug 2020 11:56 |
Last Modified: | 01 Jul 2022 00:13 |
Status: | Published online |
Publisher: | Oxford University Press |
Identification Number: | 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190212926.013.55 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:164185 |