| Summary: | This doctoral research examines three distinct but interconnected groups of queer migrations to Iceland, that is, individuals coming from the Global South, from Central and Eastern Europe and from the Global North. The general aim of the project is to queer migration studies within the Icelandic context, by discussing queer people and by decentring dominant political projects. This research further applies the theory of homonationalism to frame the overall study, as well as theories of nesting orientalism and the global hierarchy of value to analyse the hierarchical ordering of migrants. Moreover, it implements the analytical lens of belonging to examine how political projects of exclusion dictate interlocutors’ sense of belonging, to their ethnic community, the queer community, and the Icelandic mainstream society. The research project applies feminist, queer and transnational methodology, and qualitative methods are implemented. The research is rooted in four peer reviewed articles. Article one discusses how migrants from the Global South often develop a bifocal worldview; how their degree of “outness” is determined by identity management strategies; and how their experience of racialisation and othering often leads to a sense of unbelonging. Migration could, nonetheless, materialise new paths and practices regarding issues of gender and sexuality. Article two discusses migrants from Central and Eastern Europe, the overarching theme was “exclusionary moments” while sub-themes relate to social class and disidentification; shame and emotion l work; and participants’ sense of unbelonging. Article three discusses the group from the Global North, where a privileged subjectivity is highlighted, relating to the themes of queer imaginations of belonging; a privileged sense of belonging; and the politics of belonging. The fourth and last article discusses the exclusionary moments of queer migrant women from all over the globe, relating to the political projects of the national identity and the Catholic Church in ...
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