Скачать или смотреть Book launch: Queer Migration and Asylum in Europe

Europe is a popular destination for LGBTQ people seeking to escape discrimination and persecution. Yet, while European institutions have done much to promote the legal equality of sexual minorities and a number of states pride themselves on their acceptance of sexual diversity, the image of European tolerance and the reality faced by LGBTQ migrants and asylum seekers are often quite different.

This event celebrates the publication of Queer Migration and Asylum in Europe (March 2021, UCL Press) edited by Richard C.M. Mole, Professor of Political Sociology at UCL SSEES. The book is the result of a 2017 conference supported by the European Institute under our Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence programme.

Speakers:
Robert Wintemute (King's College London) 'Universal humanity vs. national citizenship: the example of same-sex partner immigration in Europe'

Richard Mole (UCL SSEES) 'Rethinking diaspora: Queer Poles, Brazilians and Russians in Berlin'

Keith E. McNeal (University of Houston) 'Between homonationalism and Islamophobia: Comparing Queer Caribbean and Muslim Asylum-Seeking in/to the Netherlands'

Moira Dustin and Nina Held (University of Sussex) '‘They sent me to the mountain’: The role of space, faith and support groups for LGBTIQ+ asylum claimants'

Chair: Claudia Sternberg, UCL European Institute

Date: 16 March 2021