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

1st ed.

Bielefeld : transcript, 2022 [©2022]

1 online resource (447 pages)

Englisch

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LOC-SH: Sexual minority women

Cover -- Contents -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Immigration and Sexuality: Policies and Practices in Switzerland -- 2.1 Migration to Switzerland -- 2.2 Lesbians in Switzerland -- 2.3 Queer Migration to Switzerland -- 3. Sexuality, Migration, Space -- 3.1 Embodied Geographies -- 3.2 Traveling Concepts of Sexualities: Queer Migration Studies -- 3.3 What's Space Got to Do with It? Geographies of Sexualities -- 3.4 Thinking Sexuality, Migration, and Space Together -- 3.5 Who Are 'Queer Migrant Women'? Approaching the Research Subject -- 4. Methodology: Doing Research in an Intersectional Field -- 4.1 Applied Methods -- 4.2 The Sampling Process -- 4.3 Data Corpus, Data Analysis, and Writing Process -- 4.4 Some Thoughts on Positionality -- 5. Shifting Positions of the Sexual Self -- 5.1 "Now I can say I'm a lesbian": Becoming a Lesbian in Switzerland -- 5.2 "I was totally shocked": Differing Sexual (Sub)cultures -- 5.3 "It's like a stamp": Rejecting the Lesbian Label -- 5.4 Conclusion -- 6. Family Matters -- 6.1 Family Relations: The Family of Origin -- 6.2 Queer Families -- 6.3 Conclusion -- 7. Diasporic Spaces, Intersectional Homing Desires -- 7.1 Negotiating Racism and Xenophobia as an 'Ausländerin' in Switzerland -- 7.2 Ambivalent Diasporic Spaces -- 7.3 Queering the Diasporic, Diasporizing the Lesbian -- 7.4 Desiring the Queer Compatriot -- 7.5 "Des Suisses-Suisses on va laisser tomber": Being 'Other Swiss' Together -- 7.6 Imagining and Reclaiming the (Parents') Home Country -- 7.7 Conclusion -- 8. Sexual Citizenship -- 8.1 Partnership Registration: An Intimate Decision? -- 8.2 Producing and Controlling Sexualities at and within the Border -- 8.3 Conclusion -- 9. Work -- 9.1 Work as a Site of Recognition, Self‑Realization, and Integration -- 9.2 Failing to Connect at Work.