This thesis will seek to map the ways in which the category of “LGBT asylum seeker” (or LGBT family member seeking to be reunified) is constructed by the state and other social actors in the context of the Czech Republic -- explicitly centering the construction of bisexuality within this category. The research will attempt to address questions of how discourses of ‘deserving refugees’ and ‘believability’ play into asylum processes and policies that specifically deal with bisexual asylum seekers and/or migrants, while also paying attention to absences. The research will combine analyses of Czech and EU policies and materials from migration- and LGBT-oriented NGOs and organizations and ethnographic research consisting of interviews with lawyers, NGO workers, and, if possible, people with refugee/migrant experience themselves and state officials.
- zadáno vedoucím/školitelem