| ID | 173948 |
| Title Proper | Who is “Queerer” and Deserves Resettlement? |
| Other Title Information | Queer Asylum Seekers and Their Deservingness of Refugee Status in Turkey Queer Asylum Seekers and Their Deservingness of Refugee Status in Turkey |
| Language | ENG |
| Author | Koçak, Mert |
| Summary / Abstract (Note) | Turkey’s long-standing geographical limitation on the 1951 Geneva Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees resulted in fractured legal statuses for refugees, each with minimal rights but extensive responsibilities. One of these categories, conditional refugees under international protection, presents a curious case of direct involvement of UNHCR in processing asylum applications filed under this category and resettling accepted individuals to third countries. Situated in the fourteen-month fieldwork with queer refugees under international protection, this article scrutinizes UNHCR’s role in the asylum-seeking process in Turkey through which queer refugees’ experience of displacement finds a new meaning of being “deserving” of refugee status and resettlement to a third country. UNHCR’ direct involvement in Turkey makes it an important actor in policing and controlling not only sexuality and gender identity of queer refugees but also in constructing deservingness of refugee status as a gendered performance of persecution and in constructing the discourse of “fake LGBT refugees.” |
| `In' analytical Note | Middle East Critique Vol. 29, No.1; 2020: p. 29-46 |
| Journal Source | Middle East Critique Vol: 29 No 1 |
| Key Words | Refugee ; Turkey ; UNHCR ; Refugeeness ; LGBT ; Authencity ; Deservingness ; Queer Migration |