GAY ENOUGH?

Abstract

Taking an inspiration in Khosravi’s auto-ethnographic work, “Illegal Traveler” 2010 , the aim of this paper is to explore and problematize the inexorably gendered, sexualized and racialized border discourse on migration and asylum processes and policies within a larger Euro-centric context, and in Sweden particularly. It is only spoken of young boys and young men, whether in the context of number of asylum seekers, irregular/illegal travelers and undocumented migrants or demonstrations protesting deportations. Simply based on discursive realities, young, “unaccompanied” male asylum seekers outnumber that of female asylum seekers, which in itself is rather problematic and stems from and within the hegemonic heteronormative structures. However, these marginalized gender and sexualities cannot be entirely “nonexistent” within the asylum processes. Therefore, this paper maps a framework for shading light on a certain invisibility of non-normative representations of gender or marginalized gender representations etc. in relation to the supposed burgeoning flow of asylum seekers in Sweden

Keywords

• gender,migration,asylum seeker,LGBTQ

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