Responses to Structural Violence: The Everyday Ways in Which Queer and Trans Migrants With Precarious Status Respond to and Resist the Canadian Immigration Regime

Lee, Edward Ou Jin

doi:10.18357/ijcyfs101201918807

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“…What is mostly absent in the CYC literature, as well as the other literature reviewed here, are suggestions for how to practise with queer and T2SNB young people and an examination of what care means for them. While some articles do take this up (e.g., Clark, 2017;Lee, 2019;Taylor, 2020), articles that directly inform or suggest practice approaches for working with T2SNB, and queer young people are uncommon. Articles focused on risk, experiences of violence, or critical theory of practice are far more prevalent than articles that explore what we as CYCPs can actually do differently.…”

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“…(p. 64). As Lee (2019) noted, within the current global context, the human rights of queer and trans people continue to be debated and contested. If CYC is truly to be framed "as a site for radical theorizing, advocacy, and social change" (de Finney et al, 2011, p. 362), we must ask ourselves how we can make space for queer and trans identities and topics within our field, in order to work towards social change that shifts the field and challenges a cisheteronormative CYC system.…”

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“…The International Journal of Child, Youth and Family Studies contained 20 relevant articles, including eight that focused on LGBTQ/queer topics, and four that focused on gender diversity and trans topics (Clark, 2017;Jack, 2020;Lee, 2019;Walker, 2014). The topics and foci within these journal articles included:  social justice and responding to structural violence (Ajandi, 2011;de Finney et al, 2011;Lee, 2019;Richardson & Reynolds, 2012;Saraceno, 2012);…”

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Exploring the Cyc Cis-Tem: A Literature Review of Queer and Trans Topics in Child and Youth Care

Walker

2021

IJCYFS

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Although Child and Youth Care (CYC) sees itself as a field that embraces diversity and complexity, there is a notable lack of discussion of sexual and gender diversity: queer and trans topics are rarely taken up across CYC research, practice, and pedagogy. Through a systematic literature review of articles published between 2010 and early 2020 in six journals with a focus on CYC practice, research, and theory, this article assesses how queer, trans, Two-Spirit, and nonbinary identities and topics are being discussed in the current CYC literature and reveals a conspicuous absence of publication on these topics. In a 10-year period, across six CYC publications comprising over 4000 published articles, only 36 articles focused on queer and LGBT issues (by covering both sexual and gender diversity) and, of those, only eight articles specifically focused on gender diversity or trans topics. No articles were found within any of the reviewed publications that specifically focused on Two-Spirit identities or topics and only one article mentioned nonbinary identities. Through exploring how and where queer and trans, Two-Spirit, and nonbinary identities and topics are being discussed, this review asks how we as a CYC field might begin to make space for these topics within our field and practice, in order to work towards social change that shifts our field and challenges the cis-heteronormative CYC system.

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Exploring the Cyc Cis-Tem: A Literature Review of Queer and Trans Topics in Child and Youth Care

Walker

2021

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“…In line with queer migration scholars, this paper then reminds us that migration experience reshapes inequalities, but does not erase them (Manalansan, 2003;Luibhéid, 2008;Cantú, 2009). Simultaneously it aims at extending the emerging literature focusing on queer asylum seekers' and refugees' experiences in countries of arrival beyond the refugee status determination process (Andrade, 2018;Lee, 2019;Wimark, 2019).…”

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Refugeeness, Sexuality, and Gender: Spatialized Lived Experiences of Intersectionality by Queer Asylum Seekers and Refugees in Paris

Chossière

2021

Front. Hum. Dyn.

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In the last few years, asylum claims based on sexual orientation and/or gender identity (SOGI) have received increased attention within migration and queer studies. Mostly focusing on the refugee status determination process, these works have emphasized how the expectations of asylum institutions about “genuine queer refugees” lead to the exclusion of many applicants from SOGI asylum. This paper aims at shifting the analysis perspective from the legal categorization process to the impacts of everyday experienced categories of “asylum seekers” or “refugees” on queer migrants in the Parisian area. Using a three-year long ethnographic fieldwork, completed through interviews with queer asylum seekers and refugees, this paper investigates how refugeeness, understood as the objective and subjective effects of migration and asylum policies on individuals, contributes to shaping lived experiences of sexual and gender minorities in France. By drawing attention to the ways that the multiple power relationships queer asylum seekers and refugees have to face are spatially grounded, this paper discusses how an intersectional understanding of sexuality, gender, and refugeeness allows us to emphasize the role played by migration status in the negotiation of hetero- and cisnormativity. This paper also argues that far from remaining passive toward the categorization process they are subjected to, queer asylum seekers and refugees strategically appropriate the administrative categories with which they are associated. Such an analysis of lived experiences of queer asylum seekers and refugees in the country of arrival thus highlights the complex reshaping of social location caused by migration.

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“…While it is beyond the scope of this paper, the experiences of (racialized and poor) trans-people in immigration detention is another under-studied sub-group that is likewise important for examining the structural violence of crimmigration(Collier & Daniel, 2019;Lee, 2019). In this paper, I use the category women to refer to women-identified individuals, recognizing the fluidity of gender identity.…”

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Punishing Survivors and Criminalizing Survivorship: A Feminist Intersectional Approach to Migrant Justice in the Crimmigration System

Abji¹

2020

SSJ

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Scholars have identified crimmigration – or the criminalization of “irregular” migration in law – as a key issue affecting migrant access to justice in contemporary immigrant-receiving societies. Yet the gendered and racialized implications of crimmigration for diverse migrant populations remains underdeveloped in this literature. This study advances a feminist intersectional approach to crimmigration and migrant justice in Canada. I add to recent research showing how punitive immigration controls disproportionately affect racialized men from the global south, constituting what Golash-Boza and Hondagneu-Sotelo have called a “gendered racial removal program” (2013). In my study, I shift analytical attention to consider the effects of the contemporary crimmigration system on migrant women survivors of gender-based violence. While such cases constitute a small sub-group within a larger population of migrants in detention, nevertheless scholarly attention to this group can expose the multiple axes along which state power is enacted – an analytical strategy that foundational scholars like Crenshaw (1991) used to theorize “structural intersectionality” in the US. In focusing on crimmigration in the Canadian context, I draw attention to the growing nexus between migration, security, and gender-based violence that has emerged alongside other processes of crimmigration. I then provide a case analysis of the 2013 death while in custody of Lucía Dominga Vega Jiménez, an “undocumented” migrant woman from Mexico. My analysis illustrates how migrant women’s strategies to survive gender-based violence are re-cast as grounds for their detention and removal, constituting what I argue is a criminalization of survivorship.The research overall demonstrates the centrality of gendered and racialized structural violence in crimmigration processes by challenging more universalist approaches to migrant justice.

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Responses to Structural Violence: The Everyday Ways in Which Queer and Trans Migrants With Precarious Status Respond to and Resist the Canadian Immigration Regime

Cited by 25 publications

References 42 publications

Exploring the Cyc Cis-Tem: A Literature Review of Queer and Trans Topics in Child and Youth Care

Exploring the Cyc Cis-Tem: A Literature Review of Queer and Trans Topics in Child and Youth Care

Refugeeness, Sexuality, and Gender: Spatialized Lived Experiences of Intersectionality by Queer Asylum Seekers and Refugees in Paris

Punishing Survivors and Criminalizing Survivorship: A Feminist Intersectional Approach to Migrant Justice in the Crimmigration System

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