Discourses on LGBT asylum in the UK : constructing a queer haven / Thibaut Raboin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Raboin, Thibaut, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Asylum, Right of--Great Britain.

Asylum, Right of.

Sexual minorities--Legal status, laws, etc--Great Britain.

Sexual minorities.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (vii, 168 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2017.

Summary:

Discourses on LGBT asylum in the UK analyses fifteen years of debate, activism and media narrative and examines the way asylum is conceptualized at the crossroads of nationhood, post colonialism and sexual citizenship, reshaping in the process forms of sexual belongings to the nation.Asylum has become a foremost site for the formulation and critique of LGBT human rights. This book intervenes in the ongoing discussion of homonationalism, sheds new light on the limitations of queer liberalism as a political strategy, and questions the prevailing modes of solidarity with queer migrants in the UK.This book employs the methods of Discourse Analysis to study a large corpus encompassing media narratives, policy documents, debates with activists and NGOs, and also counter discourses emerging from art practice. The study of these discourses illuminates the construction of the social problem of LGBT asylum. Doing so, it shows how our understanding of asylum is firmly rooted in the individual stories of migration that are circulated in the media. The book also critiques the exclusionary management of cases by the state, especially in the way the state manufactures the authenticity of queer refugees. Finally, it investigates the affective economy of asylum, assessing critically the role of sympathy and challenging the happy goals of queer liberalism.This book will be essential for researchers and students specializing in refugee studies and queer studies.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: 1. Narrating LGBT asylum

2. Imagining a queer haven

3. biopolitics of recognition

4. Feelings of sympathy

5. queer optimism of asylum.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 25 Mar 2026).

Includes bibliographical references (pages 154-165) and index.

ISBN:

9781526108159

1526108151

9781526121011

1526121018

9781526108142

1526108143

OCLC:

973368686