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3 Birkbeck L. Rev. 305 (2015)
Logics of Citizenship and Violence of Rights: The Queer Migrant Body and the Asylum System

handle is hein.journals/birkbek3 and id is 323 raw text is: Mariska Jung Logics of Citizenship and Violence of Rights: The Queer Migrant Body and the Asylum System MARISKA JUNG* Border and migration studies document how states produce migrant subjectivities via bio-political practices, which are plotted against the figure of the 'undeserving' migrant. How- ever, there is little research on the politics of the recent but growing tendency in Western states to include the category of 'LGBT' in their asylum policies. Furthermore, there has been little attention to the role of activists in border regimes. Hence academia fails to fully grasp the violence of rights- based migration politics and to understand the dispersed sexual politics of borders. This article examines the relation- ship between LGBT emancipation, border enforcement and migration activism in the United Kingdom. It appears that asylum policies construct hierarchies of migrants, currently with the LGBT asylum seeker towards the top of the pecking order. Activists contest, but simultaneously perform, the sexual and territorial border. The save-ability of the queer migrant is constructed at the same time that immigration violence is conducted, through indefinite detention and the Detained Fast Track system. Law turns out to be a violent governmental technology when gender and sexuality rights are used to further close the border. MSc Migration Mobility and Development Studies from SOAS, University of London. BSc Interdisciplinary Social Sciences and BA Philosophy from the University of Amsterdam. Mariska is currently working as a consultant and practitioner in the fields of anti-discrimination and migration, with a special focus on gender and sexuality. 305

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