scholarly journals Liberation Nation? Queer Refugees, Homonationalism and the Canadian Necropolitical State

2020 ◽  
Vol 28 (59) ◽  
pp. 69-78
Author(s):  
David Murray
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Orientation ◽  
Gender Identity ◽  
Ethnographic Research ◽  
Mainstream Media ◽  
Determination Process ◽  
Crucial Component ◽  
Refugee Claimants ◽  
International Reputation ◽  
Gate Keeping ◽  
Identity Expression

Abstract This paper presents an overview of the Canadian state’s refugee determination processes for persons lodging asylum claims in Canada on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity expression (SOGIE). Canada has an international reputation for being a welcoming nation to SOGIE (as well as other categories of) refugees, a reputation that is much promoted by the Canadian government and mainstream media. However, in my ethnographic research with SOGIE refugee claimants navigating the Canadian refugee determination process, I reveal that claimants must quickly learn how to construct an ‘authentically’ gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgender narrative that meets refugee adjudicators’ standards of credibility, or risk being identified as a ‘fake’ refugee, and thus face incarceration and/or deportation. I argue that sexuality now forms a crucial component of the nation-state’s gate-keeping apparatus, with uneven effects for queer migrants.

scholarly journals A Review of the State of HIV Nursing Science With Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity/Expression Peoples

2021 ◽  
Vol Publish Ahead of Print ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Craig Phillips ◽  
Jufri Hidayat ◽  
Kristen D. Clark ◽  
Julia Melisek ◽  
Monique Balthazar ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Orientation ◽  
Gender Identity ◽  
The State ◽  
Nursing Science ◽  
Identity Expression

Testimonies of LGBTIQ refugees as cartographies of political, sexual and emotional borders

2014 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 28-59 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nathalie Ricard
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Orientation ◽  
Gender Identity ◽  
Asylum Seekers ◽  
Grassroots Organizations ◽  
Liminal Space ◽  
Refugee Claimants ◽  
The Right

To be granted status, refugee claimants have to testify at the Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada (IRB). This liminal space is charged with both the promise of liberation and the threat of deportation. Adding to the challenge are the governmental measures that constrain the right to asylum. This paper suggests answers to the question: What language and other discursive features do LGBTIQ claimants have to use to be recognized as refugees? This ethnography is based on fieldwork conducted in Toronto and Vancouver. I will present two vignettes of claimants I accompanied to their hearings. Contrary to heterosexuals, queer asylum seekers have to prove their sexual orientation and/or their gender identity. Truth about their sexuality and persecution is evaluated through the lens of legal technologies, and stereotypes are still common. However, extralegal forms of communication also come into play. New avenues for justice are being fostered by grassroots organizations.

scholarly journals An anthropometric study of sexual orientation and gender identity in Thailand

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Malvina N. Skorska ◽  
Lindsay A. Coome ◽  
Diana E. Peragine ◽  
Madison Aitken ◽  
Doug P. VanderLaan
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Orientation ◽  
Gender Identity ◽  
Bone Growth ◽  
Sex Differentiation ◽  
Long Bone ◽  
Leg Length ◽  
Bisexual Women ◽  
Left Hand ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Identity Expression

AbstractThe biodevelopment of psychological sex differentiation is putatively reflected in several anthropometrics. We examined eight anthropometrics in 1404 Thai participants varying in sex, sexual orientation, and gender identity/expression: heterosexual men and women, gay men, lesbian women, bisexual women, sao praphet song (transgender birth-assigned males), toms (transgender birth-assigned females), and dees (birth-assigned females attracted to toms). Exploratory factor analyses indicated the biomarkers should be analyzed independently. Using regressions, in birth-assigned males, less male-typical second-to-fourth digit ratios in the left hand were associated with sexual orientation towards men regardless of gender identity/expression, whereas shorter height and long-bone growth in the arms and legs were more evident among sao praphet song—who are both sexually oriented towards men and markedly feminine. In birth-assigned females, there were no clear sexual orientation effects, but there were possible gender-related effects. Groups of individuals who tend to be more masculine (i.e., toms, lesbians) showed more male-typical patterns on weight and leg length than some groups of individuals who tend to be less masculine (i.e., heterosexual women, dees). Thus, it appears the various anthropometrics inform separate biodevelopmental processes that differentially relate to sexual orientation and gender identity/expression depending on the measure in question as well as birth-assigned sex.

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