Introduction: Queer migration, asylum, and displacement. (December 2014)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Lewis, Rachel A; Naples, Nancy A
• Editors: Lewis, Rachel A; Naples, Nancy A
• Is Part Of: Sexualities. Volume 17:Number 8(2014:Dec.)
• Page Start: 911
• Page End: 918
• Publication Date: 2014-12
• Subjects: Citizenship -- deportation -- migration -- sexuality; Sex -- Periodicals; Sex customs -- Periodicals; Sex (Psychology) -- Periodicals; 306.705
• DOI: 10.1177/1363460714552251
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1363-4607

Abstract

This special issue of Sexualities emerges in response to the growing visibility of LGBTQI immigrants, refugees and asylum seekers within global gay rights advocacy. Despite the increasing prominence of LGBTQI issues on the international human rights agenda, there has been relatively little discussion of the relationship between queer migration and LGBTQI human rights activism in the field of sexuality studies. This special issue seeks to bring queer migration and sexual citizenship studies into critical conversation with current literature in the area of gender, sexuality and human rights.