BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.3.3//EN TZID:America/Toronto X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/Toronto BEGIN:VEVENT UID:69@sds.utoronto.ca DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20220210T163000 DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20220210T180000 DTSTAMP:20220516T191113Z URL:https://sds.utoronto.ca/events/martha-la-mccain-postdoctoral-fellow-le cture-by-elif-sari-stuck-iranian-lgbtq-refugees-in-turkey-and-the-sexualit y-of-immobility/ SUMMARY:Martha LA McCain Postdoctoral Fellow Lecture by Elif Sari: Stuck: I ranian LGBTQ Refugees in Turkey and the Sexuality of (Im)Mobility DESCRIPTION:A recording of the event is now available on the Bonham Centre ’s Youtube Channel.\n\nhttps://youtu.be/0YuEeFk6pww\n\nEvery year\, the Martha LA McCain Postdoctoral Fellow at the Mark S. Bonham Centre for Sexu al Diversity Studies delivers a public lecture that highlights their work. This event will be held on Zoom\, and will include live captioning. A rec ording will be posted online after the event. Please contact sexual.divers ity@utoronto.ca with any access requests.\nRegister here to attend the lec ture on February 10th\, at 4:30pm EST.\nStuck: Iranian LGBTQ Refugees in T urkey and the Sexuality of (Im)Mobility\n\nThis talk explores the carceral politics of asylum shaped by uncertain waiting\, spatial confinement\, an d precarious material conditions together with refugees’ lived experienc es and everyday negotiations to cope with violence\, precarity\, and uncer tainty. Drawing on ethnographic research in Turkey with Iranian LGBTQ refu gees awaiting resettlement to the United States and Canada\, I develop an understanding of migration that foregrounds experiences of waiting\, stuck ness\, and immobility\, rather than movement\, in the contemporary context of closed borders. As North American countries have cut their refugee quo tas and tightened their asylum policies since 2015\, the prospects for Ira nian LGBTQ refugee resettlement have grown increasingly dim. Even applican ts who have completed necessary asylum procedures and are formally eligibl e for resettlement remain stranded in Turkey with insecure status for an u ndetermined period of time. Moving between asylum interviews\, NGO offices \, informal workplaces\, and refugee protests and parties\, this talk expl ores how North American countries’ tightening resettlement policies\, co mbined with Turkey’s strict control of refugees’ gender/sexuality\, mo bility\, and labor\, subject LGBTQ refugees to multiple forms of violence. It also examines how LGBTQ refugees respond to structures of stuckness an d uncertainty by cultivating a queer ethics of love\, care\, support\, and solidarity. They develop and uphold novel practices of self-making\, kin- making\, and community-making despite the ways in which the transnational asylum system pits them against one another in competition for access to s carce resources.\n\nElif Sari is the Martha LA McCain Postdoctoral Fellow at the Mark S. Bonham Centre for Sexual Diversity Studies at the Universit y of Toronto. She received her Ph.D. in Anthropology (2021) at Cornell Uni versity with a minor in Feminist\, Gender\, and Sexuality Studies. Before coming to anthropology\, she received an M.A. (2014) in Near Eastern Studi es at New York University and a B.A. (2011) in Political Sciences and Inte rnational Relations at Bogazici University in Turkey\, where she was born and raised. Elif’s scholarship lies at the intersections of transnationa l sexualities\, migration\, asylum\, waiting\, humanitarianism\, and queer and critical race theory with a specific focus on the Middle East and its diasporas as well as collaborative\, multimodal\, and social justice-orie nted approaches to knowledge production. Since 2014\, she works as a co-ed itor for the Turkey page at Jadaliyya\, an independent e-zine that provide s critical analysis and pedagogy on the most pressing issues related to th e Middle East and North Africa. Elif will join the Department of Anthropol ogy at the University of British Columbia as an Assistant professor in Fal l 2022. More information about Elif’s work can be found on her website. ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://sds.utoronto.ca/wp-content/uploads/Elif- Sari-Banner.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Toronto X-LIC-LOCATION:America/Toronto BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20211107T010000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR