Belonging, Community and Solidarity: Queer Experiences of Migration

In this episode, Ali Ali talks to us about his research on the themes of belonging, community and solidarity in the lives of exiles and migrants who identify as queer or sexually non-normative. Critiquing dominant narratives of Europe as a place of security, freedom and justice, Ali explains what protracted processing periods and legal limbos, complicated state bureaucracies, and societal assumptions about the ‘authenticity’ or ‘deservingness’ of queer asylum claims do to people’s senses of safety, community, and self. He also shows us how intersections between the experiences of sexually non-normative migrants and other migrant experiences can shed light on how we understand national and regional identities, and the power politics that emphasise or hide certain parts of our selves.

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Belonging, Community and Solidarity: Queer Experiences of Migration is an episode from EuroStorie Podcast by EuroStorie.

This episode is 00:51:19 long.

This episode was published on Apr 13, 2021.

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