Refugees welcome’, including in (gay) porn

Violence under the mask of liberation

Dados Bibliográficos

ID13086162
AutoresMatthew Abbey (0000-0003-3961-1223, University of Warwick, autor correspondente)
Ano2021
Volume8
Fascículo3
Páginas314-330
Data de publicação2021-03-19
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoPorn Studies (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 2326-8743 • E-ISSN: 2326-8751
EditoraTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/23268743.2021.1879666
OpenAlexW3137471830
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas2
Referências citadas31

In 2017, the porn film Refugee’s Welcome was released, directed by Canadian pornographer Bruce LaBruce. Using the ‘Refugees Welcome’ slogan popularized in Germany following the arrival of a growing number of refugees, LaBruce individualizes the narrative through the fictional story of Moonif, a young gay Syrian refugee who explores his sexuality upon arrival in Berlin. Indeed, a broader porn genre has emerged involving the depiction of refugees. In this article, I argue that Refugee’s Welcome perpetuates the trope of queer refugees having a sexual awakening upon migration, whereby the West is positioned as liberating refugees from the alleged homophobic Global South. Not only does this trope allow the film to directly focus on saviourism, but the queer refugee becomes imagined as inherently vulnerable by contrasting them to the imagined hypermasculinity of heterosexual Arab refugee men. This article thus explores the obscenity of demanding queer refugees only becoming intelligible through narratives of liberation

Art · Criminology · Depiction · Human sexuality · Literature · Media studies · Narrative · Political science · Queer · Refugee · Sociology · Trope (literature · Gender Studies · Gender, Feminism, and Media · Law · Sex work and related issues · Sexuality, Behavior, and Technology