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

by Tina Büchler

Overview

Through biographical narratives, Claiming Home traces how queer migrant women living in Switzerland navigate often contradictory perspectives on sexuality, gender, and nation. Situated between heteronormative and racialized stereotypes of migrant women on the one hand, and the implicitly white figure of the lesbian on the other, queer migrant women are often rendered ›impossible subjects.‹ Claiming Home maps how they negotiate conflicting loyalties in this field and how they, in their own way, claim a sense of belonging and home.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783732856916
Publisher:	transcript Verlag
Publication date:	01/31/2022
Series:	Kultur und soziale Praxis
Sold by:	Libreka GmbH
Format:	eBook
Pages:	446
Sales rank:	894,775
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

Tina Büchler (Dr.) is a member of the academic staff at the Interdisciplinary Centre for Gender Studies at the University of Bern. Trained as a social and queer geographer, she is currently a project leader in several research projects focusing on migration, asylum, economic precariousness, intersectionality, and human rights. She is also Co-director of the Graduate School Gender Studies, which brings together doctoral students from different disciplines and faculties who adopt a feminist perspective in their dissertations.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter 1
Contents 5
1. Introduction 7
2. Immigration and Sexuality: Policies and Practices in Switzerland 21
3. Sexuality, Migration, Space 61
4. Methodology: Doing Research in an Intersectional Field 129
5. Shifting Positions of the Sexual Self 155
6. Family Matters 211
7. Diasporic Spaces, Intersectional Homing Desires 279
8. Sexual Citizenship 309
9. Work 337
10. Scales of Identification: The City, the Rural 359
11. Conclusion and Outlook 373
Acknowledgments 393
Résumé 395
Bibliography 401
Annex I: List of Research Participants 437
Annex II: Overview of Collected Data 441
Annex III: Technical Notes 443