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

Tina Büchler

Open Access Published by transcript Verlag 2022

Claiming Home

Migration Biographies and Everyday Lives of Queer Migrant Women in Switzerland

Tina Büchler
Funded by: Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF)

In the series Kultur und soziale Praxis

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783839456910

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About this book

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.

Author / Editor information

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.

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

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Language: English
Publisher: transcript Verlag
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 446
Keywords: Gender; Cultural Anthropology; Gender Studies; Queer Theory; Sociology

eBook

Published: January 27, 2022
ISBN: 9783839456910