Second CIRQUE Conference
28 – 30 June 2019
Perfromativity: Pasts, Presents and Futures
Panel: Migration and performance
Convenor and Chair: Silvia Rodeschini
The paper will discuss LGBT asylum seeker confrontation strategies in the context of the interview with the Commissione Territoriale. What does it mean to ask LGBT asylum seekers to tell “their story”? And how this story is used to judge their rights (or potential rights)? How LGBT identities are shaped and used during the interview and, more generally, by the dispositif of the asylum? The paper argues that LGBT asylum seekers are not only confronted to pattern of western and white identities that do not necessary fit their gender and sexuality experiences, but also that they are confronted to a specific form of violence that is, in fact, the criterion used by the State to judge of their ability to be domesticated and dominated, to be potential good citizens. How LGBT seekers face this violence? Are they only vulnerable victims?
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