Murray (ed.), ‘Queering borders’, 2016

David A.B. Murray (ed.), Queering borders: Language, sexuality and migration, John Benjamins Publishing Company, June 2016, ISBN: 978902724273

Abstract

In recent years, migration has moved to the forefront of national and global debates, intensifying discussions about borders, security, identity and citizenship. In this volume we ask how language and sexuality impact these discussions: how do sexuality and language contribute toward the construction and maintenance of varying scales of borders? How do sexuality and language figure in border crossings across time, space, embodied differences, and culture? The contributors to this volume, all anthropologists, demonstrate how anthropological theories, concepts and methods uniquely address the operations of sexuality and language in the making, unmaking and remaking of these borders. In this volume, terminology, discourse, language choice, and other forms of linguistic practice are at the forefront of research on transnational queer im/migrant populations, allowing us to better understand how language shapes and is shaped by queer peoples’ movements across borders.

Originally published in Journal of Language and Sexuality Vol. 3:1 (2014).

 

Table of Contents

 

Queering borders: Language, sexuality and migration

David A.B. Murray

1–6

 

To feel the truth: Discourse and emotion in Canadian sexual orientation refugee hearings

David A.B. Murray

7–28

 

Testimonies of LGBTIQ refugees as cartographies of political, sexual and emotional borders

Nathalie Ricard

29–60

 

“Being gay has been a curse for me”: Gay Muslim Americans, narrative and negotiations of belonging in the Muslim ummah

Ahmed Afzal

61–86

 

“Coming out of the shadows” and “undocuqueer”: Undocumented immigrants transforming sexuality discourse and activism

Hinda Seif

87–119

 

Citizenship(s), belonging and xenophobia: Ecuador and NYC

Maria Amelia Viteri

121–135

 

Sexual adjudications and queer transpositions

Cymene Howe

137–156