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By David A. B. Murray

“How do I end up I’m gay?” this is often the vital query for lots of refugee claimants who're claiming asylum at the foundation of sexual orientation persecution. yet what are the inherent demanding situations in acquiring this facts? How is the process that assesses this predicated upon homonormative frameworks and anxious borders? what's the impression of gender, race and sophistication? what's an ‘authentic’ sexual or gender identification and the way can it's performed?

Real Queer? is an ethnographic exam of the Canadian refugee equipment analysing the social, cultural, political and affective dimensions of a felony and bureaucratic procedure predicated on isolating the ‘authentic’ from the ‘bogus’ LGBT refugee. via interviews, conversations and player statement with numerous contributors starting from refugee claimants to their legal professionals, Refugee security department employees and native help team staff, it unearths the ways that sexuality at the same time disrupts and is folded into the nation-state’s dynamic modes of gate-keeping, citizenship and identity-making, and the asymmetric results of those discourses and practices in this type of transnational migrants.

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