Queer Settlers: Questioning Settler Colonialism in LGBT Asylum Processes in Canada

• Published in: Refuge: Canada's Journal on Refugees
• Main Author: Fobear, Katherine
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: York University Libraries 2014
• Subjects: Canada; LGBTQ refugees; sexual and gender minorities; refugee claimants; asylum process; colonialism; settler state; Rendu; First Nations
• Online Access: https://refuge.journals.yorku.ca/index.php/refuge/article/view/38602; https://doi.org/10.25071/1920-7336.38602

Refugee and forced migration studies have focused primarily on the refugees’ countries of origin and the causes for migration. Yet it is also important to also critically investigate the processes, discourses, and structures of settlement in the places they migrate to. This has particular significan...