Queer Migration and Asylum in Europe

Table of Contents:

List of figures
List of tables
Contributors
Preface
Acknowledgements

1. Introduction: queering migration and asylum

Richard C.M. Mole

2. Universal humanity vs. national citizenship: the example of same-sex partner immigration in Europe

Robert Wintemute

3. ‘The gay person always looks for the big European city’: the sexual migration of Latin American gay men in London

Cristian Valenzuela

4. Rethinking diaspora: Queer Poles, Brazilians and Russians in Berlin

Richard C.M. Mole

5. An exercise in detachment: the Council of Europe and sexual minority asylum claims

Nuno Ferreira

6. On the government of bisexual bodies: asylum case law and the biopolitics of bisexual erasure

Christian Klesse

7. (Des)haciendo fronteras: Latin American LGBTIQ* asylum seekers in Spain in the process of credibility assessment

Aurora Perego

8. Between homonationalism and Islamophobia: comparing Queer Caribbean and Muslim asylum-seeking in/to the Netherlands

Keith E. McNeal & Sarah French Brennan

9. ‘They sent me to the mountain’: the role of space, faith and support groups for LGBTIQ+ asylum claimants

Moira Dustin and Nina Held

10. The (micro-)politics of support for LGBT asylum-seekers in France

Sara Cesaro

11. ‘How much of a lesbian are you?’ Experiences of LGBT asylum seekers in immigration detention in the UK

Sarah Singer

Index