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Confessions of an ambivalent country expert: Queer refugeeism in the UK and the political economy of (im)mobility in and out of Trinidad and Tobago
Anthropological Theory ( IF 2.078 ) Pub Date : 2019-02-27 , DOI: 10.1177/1463499618812600
Keith E. McNeal 1
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This paper considers queer refugeeism from Trinidad and Tobago to the UK in relation to the political economy of (im)mobility in and out of the Caribbean. Gay rights have been embraced by liberal democracies as the newest form of human rights, what has been called “homonationalism.” Mirroring other double-binds of liberal inclusion, I show how queer asylum-seekers get caught betwixt and between two globally-stratified homonationalisms while confronting the realpolitik of European asylum law not only as queer refugees but also in terms of transnational social mobility otherwise unavailable to them. The British asylum system therefore materializes as a bordering operation that more often than not denies lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) asylum-seekers their rights under the sign of their humanitarian protection. I consider whether homonationalisms everywhere—as assemblages of human rights discourse—should be thought of as “post-political” projects, a concept critical to growing bodies of political theory and cultural critique. This is because humanitarianism touts “rights” as universal and moral, therefore transcending the political. However, as a result of their practical effects, I show how the institutional practices deemed post-political in the case at hand should be understood as attempts to deflect and defuse the underlying politics of socioeconomic status and mobility at stake, and that the conflicts and contradictions at the heart of queer asylum-seeking represent the return of the repressed political within legal-technical spaces of disagreement. I also scrutinize the ambivalent entanglements of “expertise” when anthropologists are solicited as country experts in legal asylum cases.

中文翻译:

一位矛盾的国家专家的自白:英国的酷儿难民和特立尼达和多巴哥出入的(不)机动性的政治经济

本文考虑了从特立尼达和多巴哥到英国的酷儿难民问题,这与进出加勒比海的(非)机动性的政治经济有关。同性恋权利已被自由民主制国家接受为最新的人权形式,即所谓的“同性恋民族主义”。我反映了自由主义包容的其他双重障碍,我展示了如何在两个全球分层的同族民族主义之间夹住酷儿寻求庇护者,同时既要以酷儿难民的身份面对欧洲庇护法的现实政治,也要面对否则就无法获得的跨国社会流动性他们。因此,英国的庇护制度是一项边界行动,它经常会在其人道主义保护标志下否认女同性恋,同性恋,双性恋和变性者(LGBT)寻求庇护者的权利。我考虑是否应该将各地的民族主义(作为人权话语的集合)视为“后政治”项目,这是对不断发展的政治理论和文化批评体系至关重要的概念。这是因为人道主义主义吹捧“权利”是普遍和道德的,因此超越了政治。但是,由于它们的实际效果,我将说明如何将在本案中被视为后政治的制度实践理解为企图偏离和化解潜在的社会经济地位和流动性政治,以及冲突和冲突。寻求庇护的核心矛盾反映了被压抑的政治在法律技术分歧空间内的回归。
更新日期:2019-02-27
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