Title
Mechanisms of Exclusion and Necropolitics constraining Transgender Asylum Seekers in Switzerland A Queer & Intersectional Frame Analysis of Swiss LGBTiQ+ Non-Governmental Organizations specialized in Migration and Asylum Issues
Abstract
This thesis seeks to explore the context, conditions and lived experiences of transgender asylum seekers in Switzerland. Expressly, relying on queer and intersectional approaches within frame analysis theory, Swiss Queer specialized in migration/asylum issues NGOs’ frames are investigated. This study uses reports written by NGOs mentioned above to depict both diagnostic and prognostic frames on the basis of gender asylum seekers, refugees and people with a migration background. As such, it firstly frames diagnoses on the lived conditions of transgender asylum seekers. These diagnostic frames serve as empirical material to illustrate mechanisms of exclusion and necropolitics constraining trans* individuals in the Swiss asylum system. The analysis of diagnostic frames shows that gender asylum seekers find themselves in multiple conditions of exclusion, which are all produced and reproduced by systems of power (namely nation-states, patriarchy, cisheteronormativity, capitalism). Therefore, these structures of oppression rely on necropolitical devices affecting the population. Secondly, the emphasis is put on prognostic frames developed by the NGOs. These prognoses are then linked to stances on coalition and alliance possibilities between individuals, groups, associations, organizations aiming at disrupting systems of oppression and inequalities. This thesis ultimately stands for the disruption of such systems of power. It furthermore stands for queering asylum/ethnic and migration studies. It also stands for decolonial approaches within queer/ feminist and intersectional studies.
Keywords
Transgender Asylum Seekers, Transgender Studies, Asylum Studies, Frame Analysis, Queer Theory, Intersectionality, LGBTiQ+ Migration, Exclusion, Necropolitics, Cisheteronormativity, Nation-State, Coalitions
Author
Thibaut Gogniat
Universities and year
Linköpings Universitet and Université de Neuchâtel, 2024
ISRN: LiU-IKOS/EMS-A--24/13--SE