Claiming Home : Migration Biographies and Everyday Lives of Queer Migrant Women in Switzerland / Tina Büchler.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Büchler, Tina, Author.

Series:

Kultur und soziale Praxis

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (446 p.)

Place of Publication:

Bielefeld : transcript Verlag, [2022]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Claiming Home traces transnational configurations of sexualities through biographical narratives of queer migrant women. Situated between victimizing heteronormative and racialized stereotypes of migrant women on the one hand, and the implicitly white figure of the lesbian on the other, queer migrant women are rendered impossible subjects. Claiming Home maps how these women navigate diverging and often contradictory perspectives on sexuality, conflicting loyalties, and the multiple mechanisms of exclusion they are exposed to - on account of their gender, sexuality, and immigrant status.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

1. Introduction

2. Immigration and Sexuality: Policies and Practices in Switzerland

3. Sexuality, Migration, Space

4. Methodology: Doing Research in an Intersectional Field

5. Shifting Positions of the Sexual Self

6. Family Matters

7. Diasporic Spaces, Intersectional Homing Desires

8. Sexual Citizenship

9. Work

10. Scales of Identification: The City, the Rural

11. Conclusion and Outlook

Acknowledgments

Résumé

Bibliography

Annex I: List of Research Participants

Annex II: Overview of Collected Data

Annex III: Technical Notes

Notes:

This eBook is made available Open Access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0 https://www.degruyter.com/dg/page/open-access-policy

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ISBN:

9783839456910

3839456916

Access Restriction:

Open access Unrestricted online access