Gray, J;
Baynham, M;
(2020)
Narratives of queer migration.
In: Hall, K and Barrett, R, (eds.)
The Oxford Handbook of Language and Sexuality.
Oxford University Press: Oxford, UK.
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Abstract
This chapter considers the phenomenon of queer migration from a linguistic perspective, paying particular attention to the constitutive role of spatial mobility in narrative and its role in the construction of queer migrant identities. The chapter begins by looking at the way in which queer migration has been discussed in the literature and then moves on to address three different types of queer migration in greater depth: migration within national borders from the village/countryside to the city; migration between cities in member states within the context of the European Union; and finally, asylum-seeking within the context of migration from the Global South to the Global North. The chapter concludes by suggesting that queer migration is a complex phenomenon in which the intersection of sexuality, gender identity, desire, affect, abjection, economic necessity, class, politics, and fear for one’s life combine in ways that are unique in the lives of individual migrants.
| Type: | Book chapter |
|---|---|
| Title: | Narratives of queer migration |
| ISBN-13: | 9780190212926 |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190212926.013.55 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190212926.013... |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions. |
| Keywords: | asylum-seeking, narrative, queer migration, spatial mobility, the city |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education > IOE - Culture, Communication and Media |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10090189 |
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