The Affective Politics of Queer Migration: On Affective Ambivalence, Truth and Queerness

About the seminar: In my research, I follow what affects do in processes of queer migration in Denmark by centring narratives of both queer asylum seekers and the immigration officials, assessing and evaluating their cases. In combining qualitative interviews, fieldwork and documents, I attempt to ground an analysis of affect within the political by tracing some of the social and historical forces that reproduce (homo)national, racial, sexual and gendered hierarchies within queer migration. In this presentation, I will provide an overview of my dissertation’s analytical chapters focusing on the affective politics of ‘truth’, life and death, fear and love. I will highlight how new forms of affective resistance and ambivalence emerge through queer migration processes.

About the presenter: Marie Lunau recently defended her PhD dissertation at Roskilde University, Denmark. Her PhD dissertation focused on queer asylum in the context of Denmark. Her research interests include queer and feminist epistemologies, affect theory, anticoloniality and migration.

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