Archives of Intimacy and Trauma

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ID4053060
AuthorsMelissa Autumn White
Year2014
Volume2014
Issue120
Pages75-93
Publication date2014-10-01
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueRadical History Review (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0163-6545 • E-ISSN: 1534-1453
PublisherDuke University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1215/01636545-2703733
OpenAlexW2067011447
LanguageEN
Citations received16

Drawing on interviews with self-identified LGBTQ migrants, lawyers and immigration consultants conducted in Toronto in 2008-09 and 2013, this article explores the affective economies of queer migration governance in the transnational Canadian context. With a specific focus on the extensive paper files queer family class migrants and refugees must produce as part of the application process, the article theorizes these carefully curated documents as archives of intimacy and trauma respectively. These archives of intimacy and trauma are technologies of mobility-not only moving migrants across borders, but also moving emotions between migrants and immigration bureaucrats. In aiming to render their subjects intelligible-and intelligibly desirable-to the state, these curations of ephemeral queer intimacies and trauma simultaneously serve as archives of "affective governance," powerfully illuminating the affective modes through which bureaucracy, calculability, and biopolitics take hold

Biopower · Bureaucracy · Business · Corporate governance · Ephemeral key · Family reunification · Historical trauma · Immigration · Political science · Politics · Queer · Refugee · Sociology · Syrian refugees · African Sexualities and LGBTQ+ Issues · Gender Studies · History · Law · LGBTQ Health, Identity, and Policy · Migration, Identity, and Health · Psychology

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