H2020Индивидуална стипендия2018–2020

Queer Muslim Spaces · Queer Muslim Asylum Spaces: Between Righfulness and Rightlessness within Germany's Hetero- and Homonormative Asylum System

„Хоризонт 2020“ — Действия „Мария Склодовска-Кюри“

Период: 2018-09-01 → 2020-08-31
Финансиране от ЕС: 195 455 €
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Схема: MSCA-IF-EF-ST

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Queer Muslim Asylum Spaces: Between Righfulness and Rightlessness within Germany's Hetero- and Homonormative Asylum System

The research project took an intersectional perspective, which includes Islam, to the study of queer asylum in Europe and pursued three objectives: First, to analyze hetero/homonormativity in Germany’s asylum law and examine the possibilities for queering this law. The data reveals how sexual regimes in the asylum context always function in relation to hierarchies of gender, class, race, and cultural geopolitics. The researcher argues that these intersections need to be addressed so as to establish a more just and inclusive European asylum system. Second, to gain new empirical insights into the experiences of LGBTQI asylum seekers with Muslim background. Based on the collected data, the researcher shows that there is a tendency to extend refugee protection to those Muslim asylum seekers who most successfully re-create the mythological fiction of Western “queer liberalisms” as inhabited through ideas around individuality, sexual freedom, and visibility. In this manner, the “good” gay Muslim asylum seeker are those who confirm Western sexual lifestyle while at the same time confirming that Muslim men/communities are backward and particularly homophobic – constituting a threat to Europe’s safety and political stability Third, to develop a set of grassroots strategies that will help European Commission, state and non-state actors to develop policies and politics based on a better understanding of the wide range of experiences of LGBTQI asylum seekers. To this end, the researcher has published three policy briefs in collaboration with NGOs and queer asylum activists which address the following topics: 1) Visibility and legal support for LGBTQI Asylum Seekers; 2) The Effects of Covid-19 on LGBTQI asylum seekers; and 3) The Recognition of Black Lesbian Asylum Claims.

Текст от CORDIS, на английски · Данни: CORDIS, © Европейски съюз

Цел на проекта

This project will develop an intersectional approach to the study of queer asylum in Europe focussing on the experiences of people from a Muslim background. Muslim queer, trans, and intersex (LGBTQI) refugees are among the least visible and most marginalized constituents within Germany’s asylum system. This is despite the EU classifying LGBTQI refugees as a social group in need of special protection in 2011. Heteronormative and homonormative immigration and asylum policies combined with the global and domestic war on terror perpetuate the insecurity of Muslim LGBTQI refugees and asylum seekers in Europe. Migration and gender studies, however, largely ignore the intersectionality of queerness, Islam, and the securitization of migration and of the few studies that concentrate on queer migration in continental Europe and none are on Germany. This project will provide new empirical insights into the experiences of LGBTQI asylum seekers with Muslim background. Drawing on the theory of intersectionality, it will enhance our understanding of how both hetero- and homonormativity in Germany’s asylum system, i.e. the ‘protection’ and production of trans and queer asylum seekers, is tied to institutional and societal expectations of sexuality and Islam. In this way the study will map how homo- and heteronormative asylum practices and laws create temporal socio-political spaces where rightlessness and rightfulness meet and converge. Methods will include: semi-structured interviews with LGBTQI Muslim asylum seekers police, immigration officials, LGBTQI activists, and LGBTQI organizations; legal and discourse analysis; non-participant observation, and case studies. The project will use the data and analysis to propose strategies that will help the European Commission, and state and non-state actors to develop policies and politics based on a better understanding of the wide range of experiences of Muslim LGBTQI asylum seekers.

Оригинален текст от CORDIS (на английски).

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