Real Queer?

Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Refugees in the Canadian Refugee Apparatus

By: David A. B. Murray

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Hardcover | 11 December 2015

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194 Pages

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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 'authentic' from the 'bogus' LGBT refugee. Through interviews, conversations and participant observation with various participants ranging from refugee claimants to their lawyers, Refugee Protection Division staff and local support group workers, it reveals the ways in which sexuality simultaneously disrupts and is folded into the nation-state's dynamic modes of gate-keeping, citizenship and identity-making, and the uneven effects of these discourses and practices on this category of transnational migrants.

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In the proliferation of public attention on the sexual orientation and gender identity (SOGI) refugee in Canada, David AB Murray's Real Queer? Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Refugees in the Canadian Refugee Apparatus is a compelling and significant critical examination of how this category is (re)produced and its relationship to a larger discourse of Canadian homonationalism.... The greatest strength of Real Queer? is its integration of ethnographic work into a broader framework that examines how homonationalist discourses are constructed. Murray's ability to work with multiple scales and sites is one of the great achievements of this book.... Murray's Real Queer? Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Refugees in the Canadian Refugee Apparatus has set itself up as a critical volume for both queer and refugee theorists, and has admirably bridged these two areas of research through the contestation of parallel, and intertwined, hegemonic narratives. Even as the construction of the hegemonic 'queer migration to liberation nation' narrative is persuasively set up, the agency of individual actors in resisting such discourses also remains centre stage.

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