Spijkerboer, ‘Querelle asks for asylum’, 1998
- Category: Literature
- Source: Academic
- Subject: Sexual Orientation/Sexuality, Refugee/Asylum
- Place: Other
- Year: 1998
- File: Querelle_asks_for_asylum
- URL: https://www.academia.edu/2067926/Querelle_asks_for_asylum
Thomas Spijkerboer, ‘Querelle asks for asylum’, in Peter Fitzpatrick and James Henry Bergeron (eds.), Europe’s Other: European Law between Modernity and Postmodernity, 1998, Aldershot: Ashgate, pp. 189–218
Abstract
In this article from 1998, I analyse Dutch case law on gay asylum applications, inspired by the analytical framework developed by the German film-maker Rainer Werner Fassbinder in his last film, Querelle. The article is not easy to read, but I do something which I think is still worthwhile. I basically try to argue that relying on human rights in order to advocate LGBT asylum runs the risk of buying into the heteronormative underpinnings of human rights law.