Sexuality, Citizenship and Belonging

This collection offers a wide range of critical and in-depth interventions in sexuality and gender studies. Its call for creative and new ways of imagining the interplay between sexual politics, citizenship and belonging is urgent and timely. Addressing diverse topics on sexual citizenship, nationalism, international borders, race,' religion, 'sexual nationalism,' 'sexual exceptionalism,' and the 'Other,' this collection compels us to challenge current understandings of sexual citizenship and transnational belonging, and re-imagine new possibilities and connections. Offering theoretically-sophisticated and empirically-insightful macro and micro-level analyses, this book is a must-read for scholars who seek to reflect critically on these urgent and contentious geopolitical, policy, and academic issues, and develop competent interventions that affirm diversity, and promote social justice and equality. -- Andrew Kam-Tuck Yip, Professor of Sociology, School of Sociology and Social Policy, University of Nottingham For those interested in the border and border control, the several chapters in the collection stand out. Among other authors, readers will find Calogero Giametta's examination of asylum procedures for LGBT claimants that focuses on production and presentation of 'genuine' biographies of victims to be of great interest. Another example is Maria Livia Alga's chapter which centres on a conservative Italy to explore the 'shared marginality' of migrants and the LGBT community. These, among other chapters, help to shine a light on sexuality's interplay with fortress Europe's identity politics, which is often understudied in research and writing on border control. - Brandy Cochrane, Monash University,