Résumés
Abstract
In this paper, we analyze the multiple encounters queer asylum seekers face due to violence embedded in border control and asylum recognition processes. This analysis is based on the reconstitution of two narratives that form part of an ethnographic study, the result of five years of fieldwork with queer migrants in Brazil and Spain. We employ the notion of bureaucratic violence to understand the ambiguities between control and protection in the emergence of the LGBTI refugee as a subject of rights in the humanitarian realm.
Keywords:
- asylum,
- queer,
- migrants,
- violence,
- bureaucracy
Résumé
Dans cet article, nous analysons les rencontres multiples vécues par les demandeurs d’asile queer en raison de la violence inhérente au contrôle des frontières et au processus de reconnaissance du droit d’asile. Cette analyse s’appuie sur la reconstitution de deux récits qui font partie d'une étude ethnographique et qui résultent de cinq années de travail sur le terrain avec des migrants queers au Brésil et en Espagne. Nous utilisons la notion de violence bureaucratique pour comprendre les tensions entre le contrôle et la protection dans l'émergence du réfugié LGBTI en tant que sujet de droits dans le domaine humanitaire.
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Biographical notes
Isadora Lins França is a Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Campinas, Brazil. She can be reached at doralins@unicamp.br.
Bruno Nzinga Ribeiro is a PhD Student at the University of Campinas (Unicamp). He can be reached at brunonzingaribeiro@gmail.com.
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