RT Article
T1 (Stop) Deporting Pegah: Sovereignty, (Public) Sex, and (Life)/Death
JF Social justice
VO 43
IS 4
SP 22
OP 43
A1 Masoumi, Azar
LA English
YR 2016
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1747154628
AB This article reads the highly publicized lesbian refugee case of Pegah Emambakhsh in the UK to argue that the practice of sovereignty, particularly in relation to sexual minority refugees, is a deeply sexual practice. I draw on queer theory and theories of biopolitics and necropolitics to argue that sovereignty and sex are linked through a politics of death and terror. My reading of Emambakhsh's refugee case demonstrates how these linkages can be traced within state asylum adjudication processes.
K1 Emambakhsh, Pegah
K1 Biopolitics (Sociobiology)
K1 Queer Theory
K1 Legal status of lesbians
K1 Political refugees
K1 Great Britain -- Emigration & immigration
K1 Iranians
K1 Legal status of LGBTQ+ immigrants