The UP Population Institute (UPPI) in partnership with the UP Department of Geography hosted a public lecture of Chris Hiller entitled "The Power of Dichotomies: Securitizing LGBT Refugees." The lecture was held on September 6, 2018 at the UPPI Seminar Room 2.
The presentation gave insight into post-colonial strategies, which use the situation of LGBT refugees to proliferate Western values, using empirical data.
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| Chris Hiller delivering the lecture. |
Chris Hiller is a Ph.D. candidate in Human Geography at the University of Potsdam (Germany), focusing on sexualities, migration and power.
Lecture Summary:
(from lecture promotion material)The exceptional precarity of LGBT refugees in Europe over the past few years became the stepping stone for institutions in Germany to securitize them by creating safe spaces.
Social, media, and political assumptions apparently follow the same paradigm of an essentialistic, and culturalized homophobia and transphobia which constantly redefines the binary thinking of liberal vs. religious, developed vs. traditional, and urban vs. rural.
The presentation aims to give insight into post-colonial strategies, which use the situation of LGBT refugees to proliferate Western values, using empirical data.
The paradox with these dichotomies is that they conceal the fact that conflicts in refugee accommodations are not being solved by simple segregation based on their sexual orientation.
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| Lecture promotional material |
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