Sexual Citizenship and Migration

Prof. Dr. Kira Kosnick

3/6/9 ECTS

MA-Seminar (Präsenz-Veranstaltung): MASS: Wahlpflichtmodul: Migration, Ethnizität, Ethnozentrismus // MASS: Wahlpflichtmodul: Gender Studies und Queer Theory

Di, 14:15 - 15:45 Uhr

Ort: GD 206

In this seminar, we will address the importance of sexuality in state politics and constructions of citizenship from both historical and contemporary perspectives, and examine how sexuality is brought into play in various migration regimes of Europe and North America. We will investigate how immigration control systems utilize particular gendered and heteronormative notions of the family, and how they relate to politics of diversity that pit different axes of difference such as religion and sexuality against each other. We will also consider how, in the context of the historical emergence of the modern nation state and projects of colonial expansion, control over sexuality has been an integral part of policing the boundaries of 'race' and gender. Finally, we will address the role of sexual politics in what some critics such as Jasbir Puar have termed 'homonationalism', seeking to draw attention to the alleged complicity between contemporary ‚queer‘ sexual politics in the Global North and the processes of racialization that unfold in the post 9/11 climate of the 'war on terror'.

Sprache: Englisch