Online Event Series: “Queer Liberalisms and Marginal Mobility”

This speaker series, organized by the Queer European Asylum Network and Migration Mobilities Bristol in collaboration with the Barnard Digital Humanities Center, features four events which brings into conversation the contributors to the special issue “Queer Liberalisms and Marginal Mobility.” The special issue will be published by Ethnic and Racial Studies in Spring 2022. 

“Queer Liberalisms and Marginal Mobility” addresses queer migration through the intersectional lens of queer liberalisms, authoritarianism, and marginal mobilities. Globally, LGBTIQ+ rights form an inherent part of human rights discourse and politics. At the same time, this very human rights language is increasingly used by nation-states to defend their borders, control migration flows, and intensify discrimination and prejudice against the “other.” Using a socio-legal lens, this event series examines the interconnectedness of queer mobilities across and within different geographical, social and political contexts. 

Queer Liberalisms and Marginal Mobility

9 April 2021, 12:00-1:00 PM (EDT)

Moderated by Andrea Ritchie

A conversation with special issue editors Bridget Anderson (University of Bristol), Fadi Saleh (University of Göttingen), Mengia Tschalaer (CUNY, University of Bristol)

Labour, Precarity, Survival, and Lived Experiences

16 April 2021, 12:00-1:00 PM (EDT)

Moderated by Bridget Anderson

Ailsa Winton (Independent Researcher) “Queer mobilities, labour precarity and messy survival” 

Razan Ghazzawi (University of Sussex) “Everyday racism and the precarious mobilities of asylum seekers and migrants in Lebanon”

Humanitarianism, Representation, Subjectivity, Photography

23 April 2021, 12:00-1:00 PM (EDT)

Moderated by Fadi Saleh

Anna Carastathis (Panteion University) and Myrto Tsilimpounidi (Panteion University) “Methodological Heteronormativity and Photography: A Queer Feminist Approach to Reproductions of the ‘Refugee Crisis’” 

Martha Balguera (University of Toronto-Mississauga) “Seeking refuge while trans: how legal and humanitarian orders contain nonbinary subjectivities in Mexico and the United States”

Inner Border Flight/Refugee

30 April 2021, 12:00-1:00 PM (EDT)

Moderated by Mengia Tschalaer

Eithne Luibheid (University of Arizona) “Sexual Citizenship, Pride Parades, and Queer Migrant Im/Mobilities” 

Samuel Ritholtz (University of Oxford) “Queer/Trans displacement in the United States and the theoretical borders of forced migration studies”