Claiming Home: Migration Biographies and Everyday Lives of Queer Migrant Women in Switzerland (Culture and Social Practice) - Softcover

Tina Büchler

Softcover

ISBN 10: 3837656918 ISBN 13: 9783837656916

Publisher: Transcript Verlag, 2021

Synopsis

Claiming Home traces transnational configurations of sexualities through biographical narratives of queer migrant women. Situated between victimizing heteronormative and racialized stereotypes of migrant women on the one hand, and the implicitly white figure of the lesbian on the other, queer migrant women are rendered impossible subjects. Claiming Home maps how these women navigate diverging and often contradictory perspectives on sexuality, conflicting loyalties, and the multiple mechanisms of exclusion they are exposed to - on account of their gender, sexuality, and immigrant status.

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About the Author

Tina Büchler (Dr.) is a member of the academic staff at the Interdisciplinary Centre for Gender Studies at the University of Bern. Trained as a social and queer geographer, she is currently a project leader in several research projects focusing on migration, asylum, economic precariousness, intersectionality, and human rights. She is also Co-director of the Graduate School Gender Studies, which brings together doctoral students from different disciplines and faculties who adopt a feminist perspective in their dissertations.

Edition details

• Publisher: Transcript Verlag
• Publication date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3837656918
• ISBN 13: 9783837656916
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 430