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Europe is a popular destination for LGBTQ people seeking to escape discrimination and persecution. Yet, while European institutions have done much to promote the legal equality of sexual minorities and a number of states pride themselves on their acceptance of sexual diversity, the image of European tolerance and the reality faced by LGBTQ migrants and asylum seekers are often quite different. To engage with these conflicting discourses, Queer Migration and Asylum in Europe brings together scholars from politics, sociology, urban studies, anthropology and law to analyse how and why queer individuals migrate to or seek asylum in Europe, as well as the legal, social and political frameworks they are forced to navigate to feel at home or to regularise their status in the destination societies. The subjects covered include LGBTQ Latino migrants' relationship with queer and diasporic spaces in London; diasporic consciousness of queer Polish, Russian and Brazilian migrants in Berlin; the role of the Council of Europe in shaping legal and policy frameworks relating to queer migration and asylum; the challenges facing bisexual asylum seekers; queer asylum and homonationalism in the Netherlands; and the role of space, faith and LGBTQ organisations in Germany, Italy, the UK and France in supporting queer asylum seekers.

Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Figures -- Table -- Notes on Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Constructing Soviet and post-Soviet sexualities -- Introduction -- Constructing Soviet sexualities -- Constructing post-Soviet sexualities -- Notes -- References -- 2 'Why are we the people we are?' Early Soviet homosexuals from the first-person perspective: new sources on the history of homosexual identities in Russia -- Anonymous voices: the dominant discourses -- From decriminalisation to self-advocacy and back -- Acknowledgements -- Notes -- References -- 3 Between the labour camp and the clinic: tema or the shared forms of late Soviet homosexual subjectivities -- Concepts and methods -- Stigmatisation and the production of shared subjectivities -- Soviet homosexual subjectivities centred on language, irony and solidarity -- Acknowledgements -- Notes -- References -- 4 Soviet legal and criminological debates on the decriminalisation of homosexuality (1965-1975) -- The Soviet anti-sodomy law and Khrushchev's de-Stalinisation -- The Latvian case: attempts to criminalise lesbian sexual activity -- The legal argument for decriminalisation -- The MVD's objections to decriminalisation -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- Notes -- References -- 5 A Cold War for the twenty-first century: Homosexualism vs. Heterosexualism -- Introduction -- Homosexualism -- Heterosexualism -- Boomerang -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- Notes -- References -- 6 'That's not the only reason we love him': Chaikovsky reception in post-Soviet Russia -- Soviet nostalgia and post-Soviet erasure -- Chaikovsky on the Russian Internet: site of resistance or echo chamber? -- The uses of queer biography -- Notes -- References

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Discursive identities/identity discourses and political power / Richard Mole -- A discourse theory of ethnic identity / Don Ellis -- The tale-end of history : literary form, historiography and the (post)-national imagination in Denmark / C. Claire Thomson -- "Doing Europe" : the discursive construction of European identities / Ruth Wodak -- Shifting discourses : banal nationalism and cultural intimacy in Greek television news and everyday life / Mirca Madianou -- The power of metaphor : consent, dissent and revolution / Erik Ringmar -- Post-liberal anxieties and discourses of peoplehood in Europe : nationalism, xenophobia and racism / Gerard Delanty and Peter Millward -- Talking security? The discourse of European identity in the Baltic states / Richard Mole -- It's about time-is Europe old or new? / Jan Ifversen -- Narratives of security : strategy and identity in the European context / Felix Ciut -- Conclusion : revisiting discourse, identity and "Europe" / Richard Mole and Felix Ciut

Drawing on the experience of Russian-speaking queer migrants in Berlin, the article furthers our understanding of queer migration by analyzing the motivations and integration strategies of LGBQ migrants, as well as their attempts to maintain and perform both their sexual and national identities in the post-migration context. The risk that they could be doubly marginalized—as ethnic minorities within the host society and sexual minorities in the established diasporic community—led to the establishment ofQuarteera, a forum for Russian-speaking queers to perform and maintain both their sexual and ethno-cultural identities and give and receive social and psychological support, as well as a channel for expressing feelings of solidarity towards other Russian-speaking queers in the post-Soviet homeland. A further contribution of the article is thus highlighting the benefit of "queer diaspora" as a heuristic device to think about identity, belonging, and solidarity among sexual minorities in the context of dispersal and transnational networks.

Based upon a survey of more than three thousand respondents and forty in-depth interviews, the aim of this article is to examine the impact of migration on sexual resocialisation. In particular, we show how living in London influenced the attitudes of Central and East European migrants towards pre-marital sex and homosexuality. While the general acceptability of pre-marital sex was not affected by time spent in London, differences were noted in the meaning attached to sex outside marriage in the United Kingdom compared with Central and Eastern Europe. Particularly significant changes were observed in our respondents' attitudes towards homosexuality, with a greater liberalisation the result of extrication from mechanisms of social control, re-socialisation into new social norms regarding sex and sexuality, greater visibility of sexual difference in London and, in particular, inter-personal contacts with gays and lesbians. Limitations to the general liberalisation of attitudes were also noted.