1st Edition
Queer Liberalisms and Marginal Mobilities
Introduction: queer liberalisms and marginal mobilities
Fadi Saleh and Mengia Tschalär
1. Trans-asylum: sanctioning vulnerability and gender identity across the frontier
Martha Balaguera
2. Queer mobilities and the work of messy survival
Ailsa Winton
3. Queering migration temporalities: LGBTQI+ experiences with waiting within Germany’s asylum system
Mengia Tschalär
4. Is queer-and-trans youth homelessness a form of displacement? A queer epistemological review of refugee studies’ theoretical borders
Samuel Ritholtz
5. Sexual citizenship, pride parades, and queer migrant im/mobilities
Eithne Luibhéid
6. “As queer refugees, we are out of category, we do not belong to one, or the other”: LGBTIQ+ refugees’ experiences in “ambivalent” queer spaces
Nina Held
7. LGBTQ+ asylum and transformative accommodations between religion, faith and sexuality in the UK
Aydan Greatrick
8. Beyond queer liberalism: marginal mobilities and the future of queer politics
Fadi Saleh
Biography
Fadi Saleh holds a PhD in Cultural Anthropology from the University of Göttingen, Germany. His work— spanning both scholarship and activism— centers on queer migration, humanitarianism, and the histories and politics of queer and trans* communities, with particular attention to Syria/ Turkey and their global entanglements.
Mengia Tschalär (PhD) is Adjunct Professor of Anthropology and Law and Society at John Jay College of Criminal Justice (CUNY), USA. Her research focuses on the intersection of gender, sexuality, migration, and LGBTQI+ rights and has appeared in leading peer- reviewed journals and informed numerous policy briefs. She is the co- founder of the Queer European Asylum Network.
