Sexual adjudications and queer transpositions

Bibliographic Data

ID2137337
AuthorsC Howe (0000-0002-9361-3812, Rice University, corresponding author)
Year2014
Volume3
Issue1
Pages136-155
Publication date2014-03-21
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Language and Sexuality (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 2211-3770 • E-ISSN: 2211-3789
PublisherJohn Benjamins Publishing Company (PUBLISHER • NL)
DOI10.1075/jls.3.1.07how
OpenAlexW2055506845
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited32

Each of the articles included in this special issue of theJournal of Language and Sexualityasks us to imagine queer im/migration, asylum and sexual citizenship in multiple dimensions and to probe the discursive operations that establish the parameters of sexual subjectivity. This review article argues that these processes are illustrative of "sexual adjudication:" the discursive coordinates, legal logics and linguistic sensibilities that produce the category of the sexual migrant, the sexual refugee and the sexual asylum seeker. The discussions featured here engage questions of how sexual epistemics work in both sending and receiving countries, as well as the role of borders in constituting narratives of sexual subjectivity. In addition to analyzing the theoretical overlaps and reciprocal conversations between the articles included in the special issue, this essay provides a historical, comparative context by situating these discussions within larger theoretical and terminological questions regarding queer im/migration, asylum and subjectivity

Citizenship · Context (archaeology · Epistemology · Human sexuality · Linguistics · Narrative · Political science · Politics · Queer · Refugee · Sociology · Subjectivity · African Sexualities and LGBTQ+ Issues · Gender Studies · History · Law · Migration, Refugees, and Integration · Sex work and related issues

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