Essays about: "queer migration"

Showing result 11 - 15 of 19 essays containing the words queer migration.

  1. 11. Cultivating Critique in Folds and Pleats - Posthuman Enactments in the Dress of Rick Owens

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Avdelningen för etnologi

    Author : Wiktor Hansson; [2019]
    Keywords : Posthuman; Fashion; Anthropocene; Intra-Relationality; Rick Owens; Avant-Garde; Deleuze; Queer; MACA; Arts and Architecture; Cultural Sciences; Philosophy and Religion; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : Taking as its epistemological starting point the proposed geological era of the Anthropocene, this thesis enquires the affective potential of avant-garde fashion in criticising, improving or transforming the supposed givenness of The Human as a historical concept. In order to do so, it inflects and departs from the tightly held onto-epistemological cannon of fashion studies and anthropology of dress, in which fashion is understood primarily through representation, signification and performance of identity. READ MORE

  3. 12. 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

  4. 13. The rights and experiences of LGBTI refugees in Europe: a comparative study of procedures and practices in Italy and Sweden

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Teologiska institutionen

    Author : Giorgia Matheson; [2019]
    Keywords : LGBTI; migration; refugees; Sweden; Italy;

    Abstract : The main problem of this thesis was the comparative analysis of the procedures in place in Sweden and Italy for the reception and support of LGBTI asylum seekers fleeing from war. The aim was to understand if the Swedish and Italian asylum and social systems are supporting and protecting the rights of LGBTI asylum seekers equally, also by uncovering how these procedures affect individuals. READ MORE

  5. 14. 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

  6. 15. Filipina Domestic Workers in São Paulo - An Explorative Case Study on the Social Reproduction of Class, Gender and Race

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Sociologi

    Author : Hannah Clara Reustle; [2017]
    Keywords : social reproduction feminism; field study; Brazil; São Paulo; Filipina migrant domestic workers; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : The study is a first attempt to academically investigate the case of Filipina domestic workers in São Paulo. In brief, it aims to outline these migrants’ life and working conditions, their insertion and function within class relations and in regard to a gendered and racialized work regime. READ MORE