Nisrine Chaer
Biographic Data
| ID | 934124 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nisrine Chaer |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nisrine |
| FAMILY NAME | Chaer |
| SIGNATURE | CHAER N |
| AFFILIATIONS | Utrecht University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0999-4852 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Queer refugees in times of Dutch homonationalism, the dangerous straight male refugee and the limits of safety
Strategies of passing
In today's Lebanon, Syrian trans refugees face intersecting systems of violence that position them as hypervisible 'deviants' in multiple ways: as refugees without formal legal residency, as trans individuals without congruent gender markers, and as working-class individuals. Attending ethnographically to the notions of hypervisibility and (dis)respectability that underpin such deviances, this article explores how the Lebanese security-morality a…
Counter-narratives against hardships among Syrian refugee youth and parents
The conventional literature and popular media describe the challenges of (Syrian) refugees in terms of their being victims who need to deal with the traumatic events they experienced before and during their flight. Their lack of seeking professional psychosocial help to improve their mental wellbeing is often explained by migrants' supposed fear of stigmatization. Using in-depth interviews with 10 Syrian refugees in the Netherlands, we show that …
Fadh, Sharaf and Respectable Passing as New Frameworks for Understanding Transmasculinity in the Mena Region
Centring transmasculine refugees in Lebanon as a case study, this article examines the role of the state and the patriarchal family in regulating the lives of transmasculine subjects. It does so by introducing and elaborating on the concept of fadh, defined as the practices of scandal and shameful outing, a move that provides new ways of understanding transmasculinity through analysing the imposition of womanhood onto transmasculine subjects livi…
Strategies of passing
In today's Lebanon, Syrian trans refugees face intersecting systems of violence that position them as hypervisible 'deviants' in multiple ways: as refugees without formal legal residency, as trans individuals without congruent gender markers, and as working-class individuals. Attending ethnographically to the notions of hypervisibility and (dis)respectability that underpin such deviances, this article explores how the Lebanese security-morality a…
Fadh, Sharaf and Respectable Passing as New Frameworks for Understanding Transmasculinity in the Mena Region
Centring transmasculine refugees in Lebanon as a case study, this article examines the role of the state and the patriarchal family in regulating the lives of transmasculine subjects. It does so by introducing and elaborating on the concept of fadh, defined as the practices of scandal and shameful outing, a move that provides new ways of understanding transmasculinity through analysing the imposition of womanhood onto transmasculine subjects livi…
Fadh, Sharaf and Respectable Passing as New Frameworks for Understanding Transmasculinity in the Mena Region
Centring transmasculine refugees in Lebanon as a case study, this article examines the role of the state and the patriarchal family in regulating the lives of transmasculine subjects. It does so by introducing and elaborating on the concept of fadh, defined as the practices of scandal and shameful outing, a move that provides new ways of understanding transmasculinity through analysing the imposition of womanhood onto transmasculine subjects livi…
Counter-narratives against hardships among Syrian refugee youth and parents
The conventional literature and popular media describe the challenges of (Syrian) refugees in terms of their being victims who need to deal with the traumatic events they experienced before and during their flight. Their lack of seeking professional psychosocial help to improve their mental wellbeing is often explained by migrants' supposed fear of stigmatization. Using in-depth interviews with 10 Syrian refugees in the Netherlands, we show that …
Strategies of passing
In today's Lebanon, Syrian trans refugees face intersecting systems of violence that position them as hypervisible 'deviants' in multiple ways: as refugees without formal legal residency, as trans individuals without congruent gender markers, and as working-class individuals. Attending ethnographically to the notions of hypervisibility and (dis)respectability that underpin such deviances, this article explores how the Lebanese security-morality a…
Queer refugees in times of Dutch homonationalism, the dangerous straight male refugee and the limits of safety
Refugee (4 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · Migration, Refugees, and Integration (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Middle East Politics and Society (2 works) · Narrative (2 works) · Political science (2 works)