Claiming Home : Migration Biographies and Everyday Lives of Queer Migrant Women in Switzerland

Claiming Home : Migration Biographies and Everyday Lives of Queer Migrant Women in Switzerland /

Claiming Home traces transnational configurations of sexualities through biographical narratives of queer migrant women. Situated between victimizing heteronormative and racialized stereotypes of migrant women on the one hand, and the implicitly white figure of the lesbian on the other, queer migran...

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Author / Contributor: Büchler, Tina (Author)
Imprint: Bielefeld : transcript Verlag, [2022]
Format: Electronic
Language:English
Subjects:
Lesbians > Switzerland > Biography.
Women migrant labor > Switzerland.
Social sciences.
Series:Kultur und soziale Praxis
Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Immigration and Sexuality: Policies and Practices in Switzerland
  • 3. Sexuality, Migration, Space
  • 4. Methodology: Doing Research in an Intersectional Field
  • 5. Shifting Positions of the Sexual Self
  • 6. Family Matters
  • 7. Diasporic Spaces, Intersectional Homing Desires
  • 8. Sexual Citizenship
  • 9. Work
  • 10. Scales of Identification: The City, the Rural
  • 11. Conclusion and Outlook
  • Acknowledgments
  • Résumé
  • Bibliography
  • Annex I: List of Research Participants
  • Annex II: Overview of Collected Data
  • Annex III: Technical Notes

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