1/5 A short thread on my chapter in #RefugeInAMovingWorld edited by
@FiddianQasmiyeh & published by @UCLpress
Chapter 10 is about discourses of advocacy for SOGI asylum in the UK. #EncountersInDisplacement https://www.uclpress.co.uk/products/116728 

2/5 It looks at how a rhetoric of distant suffering tries to constitute a public that is affectively and rationally disposed to act. This includes relying on homonationalist rescue narratives, although sometimes critically and often strategically.

3/5 Another mode of discourse emphasises proximity: SOGI asylum as a domestic problem with domestic solutions, and a focus on the notion of cohabitation.

4/5 In these cases, the intimacy of queer asylum seekers is mobilised to show a recognisable form of queer happiness achieved in the UK, showing them as part of the community.

5/5 However: what happens when the happiness of queer liberalism is not affordable to certain asylum seekers, because of their systemic exclusion from participation (in democracy, markets etc.)?