Essays about: "LGBTQ migration"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 7 essays containing the words LGBTQ migration.

  1. 1. Navigating the Sense of Belonging: Explorations among Queer Middle Eastern Individuals in Sweden

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Graduate School

    Author : Anna Marta Posmykiewicz; [2022]
    Keywords : queer identities; Sweden; migration; sense of belonging; LGBTQ migrants; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : This thesis explores the ways in which Middle Eastern LGBTQ+ individuals living in Sweden navigate their sense of belonging. The interview-based approach focuses on the narratives and lived experiences of self-identified Middle Eastern queers and their feelings of attachment in relation to ethnic and queer communities in Sweden as well as Swedish society. READ MORE

  3. 2. Are We Home Yet? : An Exploration of Queer Narratives of Forced Salvadoran Migrants

    University essay from Linköpings universitet/Tema Genus

    Author : Céline Nullens; [2020]
    Keywords : queer asylum; LGBTQ* migrants; asylum seekers; refugees; forced migration; El Salvador; Belgium;

    Abstract : This thesis explores how LGBTQ*-Salvadoran applicants for international protection experience the influence of their own sexual orientation and gender identities in relation to the underlying motives behind their migration. In addition, it intends to draw some conclusions from the respondents' statements, gained insights from observations and what was found in literature. READ MORE

  4. 3. Queer Central American Migrants Imagining Livable Lives : a study on how vulnerability of LGBTQ migrants is (re)produced during migration in Mexico and the role of religious shelters

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Teologiska institutionen

    Author : Isadora Bennet; [2020]
    Keywords : Migration; Mexico; LGBTQ; Queer; Livable Lives; Borders and Boundaries; Violence; Central America; Vulnerability; Human Mobility; Asylum;

    Abstract : The migration of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans- and queer (LGBTQ) people from Central America to or through Mexico has increased in recent years. People are leaving spaces of violence and exclusion related to their sexual and/or gender identity and search conditions for a livable life. READ MORE

  5. 4. Queer Migration Perspectives: Identity construction and experiences of social inclusion and exclusion of LGBTQ refugees in Sweden

    University essay from Malmö universitet/Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS)

    Author : Zoe Korten; [2019]
    Keywords : Migration; Queer; LGBTQ; Refugee; Sweden; Inclusion; Exclusion; Identity; Qualitative;

    Abstract : Research within the field of migration studies has become increasingly interested in asylum seekers and refugees over that last decade. However, there is a large gap in migration literature regarding LGBTQ migrants and LGBTQ asylum seekers and refugees in general. READ MORE

  6. 5. We are here, but are we queer? : A bricolage of the experiences of LGBTQ refugees in Linköping, Sweden

    University essay from Linköpings universitet/Tema Genus

    Author : Sacha Bogaers; [2018]
    Keywords : Queer asylum; LGBTQ migrants; LGBTQ asylum seekers and refugees; queer migration; collage; bricolage; intersectionality; identity;

    Abstract : In recent years, the field of queer asylum studies has slowly been expanding in different contexts across the world, with numerous methodologies and various topics of focus. In Sweden, the academic work in this area has mainly focused on legal perspectives. READ MORE