Claiming Home : : Migration Biographies and Everyday Lives of Queer Migrant Women in Switzerland / / Tina Büchler.

• VerfasserIn: Büchler, Tina,
• Place / Publishing House: Bielefeld : : transcript Verlag, , [2022]; ©2022
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: Kultur und soziale Praxis
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (446 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; 1. Introduction --; 2. Immigration and Sexuality: Policies and Practices in Switzerland --; 3. Sexuality, Migration, Space --; 4. Methodology: Doing Research in an Intersectional Field --; 5. Shifting Positions of the Sexual Self --; 6. Family Matters --; 7. Diasporic Spaces, Intersectional Homing Desires --; 8. Sexual Citizenship --; 9. Work --; 10. Scales of Identification: The City, the Rural --; 11. Conclusion and Outlook --; Acknowledgments --; Résumé --; Bibliography --; Annex I: List of Research Participants --; Annex II: Overview of Collected Data --; Annex III: Technical Notes
• ISBN: 3839456916
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Tina Büchler.

Claiming Home traces transnational configurations of sexualities through biographical narratives of queer migrant women. Situated between victimizing 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 rendered impossible subjects. Claiming Home maps how these women navigate diverging and often contradictory perspectives on sexuality, conflicting loyalties, and the multiple mechanisms of exclusion they are exposed to - on account of their gender, sexuality, and immigrant status.