Multiple Encounters: Queer Migrants and Bureaucratic Violence

Multiple Encounters: Queer Migrants and Bureaucratic Violence

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In this paper, we analyze the multiple encounters queer asylum seekers face due to violence embedded in border control and Condiment Jars asylum recognition processes.This analysis is based on the reconstitution of two narratives that form part of an ethnographic study, the result of Bike Parts - BMX - Axel Pegs five years of fieldwork with queer migrants in Brazil and Spain.We employ the notion of bureaucratic violence to understand the ambiguities between control and protection in the emergence of the LGBTI refugee as a subject of rights in the humanitarian realm.