Queering The Migrant In Contemporary European Cinema

<P>This exciting and original volume offers the first comprehensive critical study of the recent profusion of European films and television addressing sexual migration and seeking to capture the lives and experiences of LGBTIQ+ migrants and refugees.</P><P></P><I><P>Queering the Migrant in Contemporary European Cinema </I>argues that embodied cinematic representations of the queer migrant, even if at times highly ambivalent and contentious, constitute an urgent new repertoire of queer subjectivities and socialities that serve to undermine the patrolled borders of gender and sexuality, nationhood and citizenship, and refigure or<I> queer</I> fixed notions and universals of identity like ¿Europe¿ and national belonging based on the model of the family. At stake ethically and politically is the elaboration of a ¿transborder¿ consciousness and aesthetics that counters the homonationalist, xenophobic and homo/trans-phobic representation of the ¿migrant to Europe¿ figure rooted in the toxic