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

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.

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.

Summary

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

• Authors: Tina Büchler
• Publisher: Transcript
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.02.2022
• EAN: 9783837656916
• ISBN: 978-3-8376-5691-6
• No. of pages: 446
• Dimensions: 150 mm x 30 mm x 240 mm
• Weight: 758 g
• Illustrations: 1 schw.-w. u. 4 farb. Abb.
• Series: Kultur und soziale Praxis
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Humanities (general); Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Miscellaneous; Migration, Verstehen, Sozialwissenschaften, Soziologie, Gender Studies, Gender, Sozial- und Kulturanthropologie, Ethnographie, Sociology, Cultural Anthropology, Queer Theory, Gender Studies: Gruppen, Human Geography, Sociology and anthropology, National liberation & independence, post-colonialism, Culture and institutions, Factors affecting social behavior, International migration and colonization, Groups of people