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David A. B. Murray

Real Queer?

Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Refugees in the Canadian Refugee Apparatus

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How do I prove I'm gay? This is the central question for many refugee claimants who are claiming asylum on the basis of sexual orientation persecution. But what are the inherent challenges in obtaining this proof? How is the system that assesses this predicated upon homonormative frameworks and nervous borders? What is the impact of gender, race and class? What is an 'authentic' sexual or gender identity and how can it be performed?Real Queer? is an ethnographic examination of the Canadian refugee apparatus analysing the social, cultural, political and affective dimensions of a legal and bureaucratic process predicated on separating the 'auth… Mehr

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  • ISBN: 978-1-78348-439-3
  • EAN: 9781783484393
  • Produktnummer: 17787048
  • Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2015
  • Seitenangabe: 194 S.
  • Masse: H23.5 cm x B15.7 cm x D1.5 cm 442 g
  • Abbildungen: HC gerader Rücken kaschiert
  • Gewicht: 442

Über den Autor


David A.B. Murray is Professor of Anthropology at York University, Canada. Drawing on theoretical interests in culture, nationalism, colonialism, representation, performance and sexuality, his work examines the processes and politics of identity making projects and their relations to local, national and transnational political and economic forces. He is the author of 'Opacity: Gender, Sexuality, Race and the Problem of Identity in Martinique' (2002) and 'Flaming Souls: Homosexuality, Homophobia and Social Change in Barbados' (2012). He is the editor of 'Homophobias: Lust and Loathing Across Time and Space' (2009).

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