Abstract This article explores the experiences of queer children who have sought asylum alone in Norway, focussing on hope, fear and despair. The children who are denied asylum relate an experience of standing at the brink of death, while those who are granted asylum describe how the queer life they have hoped for is postponed by the settlement and integration system, where they live in isolation and in risk of violence and bullying. We analyse these experiences in light of decolonial theory in which the conditions of war and proximity to death are extended into the childrens’ lives under the custodianship of the Norwegian state. Drawing on queer theory, the wager is life as these children have known it. The potential is living beyond the coloniality of Being, in relationships and communities that provide the possibility of a meaningful life.

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摘要本文探讨了仅在挪威寻求庇护的酷儿的经历，重点是希望，恐惧和绝望。被拒绝庇护的儿童有一种濒临死亡的经历，而获得庇护的儿童则描述了他们所希望的奇怪生活如何被定居和融合系统所推迟，在那里他们孤立地生活着并有患病的危险。暴力和欺凌。我们根据殖民主义理论分析了这些经历，在战争理论中，战争和接近死亡的条件在挪威政府的监护下扩展到了儿童的生活中。根据酷儿理论，下注就是这些孩子所知道的生活。潜力正在超越存在的殖民地，在提供有意义生活可能性的关系和社区中生活。