Giametta, ‘LGBTQ migration’, 2025

Category: Literature
Source: Academic
Subject: Sexual Orientation/Sexuality, Gender Identity, Refugee/Asylum, Migration
Place: International
Year: 2025
URL: https://doi.org/10.4337/9781035300389.ch103

Calogero Giametta, ‘LGBTQ migration’, in Elgar Encyclopedia of Global Migration. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2025, 324–325

Abstract

In the past three decades, the academic field of Queer Migration studies has examined queer and trans migration experiences and histories that have been disregarded by academia. The nexus of queer and migration studies has produced key critical knowledge about the heteronormative structures that govern immigration institutions. Authors in this field often point out that migrations of all people, lesbian, gay, bi, trans and queer (LGBTQ) or not, exposed to border control bureaucracy – and thus to the gendered and racialised violence of such control – are key subjects of analysis for this field of study. Further, the intersectional examinations of sexualities and international migrations in this area have resulted in original data and theories about often-untold migration histories within post-colonial, asylum, and labour migration contexts.

Keywords: Borders; Power; Control; Protection; Queer asylum