Category: Articles
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Translating difference: whiteness, racialisation and queer migration in Berlin (European Journal of Politics and Gender)
This article explores how the experiences of queer migration shape and inform racialisation, and how racial categories, such as ‘whiteness’ and ‘non-whiteness’, are employed by queer migrants from Turkey in relation to their narratives of belonging and non-belonging in Germany. Drawing on fieldwork conducted in Berlin between 2018 and 2022, I aim to show how…
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The pink line across digital publics: Political homophobia and the queer strategies of everyday life during COVID-19 in Turkey (European Journal of Women’s Studies)
COVID-19 has precipitated an increase in political homophobia in Turkey. This article focuses on the interlocking processes of LGBTQ marginalization and exclusion in Turkey with the purpose of uncovering how political homophobia is enforced, experienced, and navigated by LGBTQ people in Turkey during the COVID-19 pandemic. With the help of two critical conceptual tools, pink…
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Crossing borders: the intersectional marginalisation of Bulgarian Muslim trans*immigrant sex workers in Berlin (Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies)
Bordering situates immigrant sex workers at the margins of an already marginalised industry and naturalises the legal conditions of their dispossession and precarity. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork in Berlin, we offer a situated intersectional analysis of the everyday bordering experiences of Muslim trans*immigrant sex workers from Bulgaria (hereafter TISWs). Focusing on three interactional contexts –…
Tunay Altay 