DISPLACING QUEER REFUGEE EPISTEMOLOGIES: DREAMS OF TRESPASS, QUEER KINSHIP, …

In the past few years, I have focused my research on the inconsistencies in refugee regimes, wherein Iranian queer and transgender refugee applicants in Turkey who are waiting for their cases to be processed by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), the Turkish state, and the “third country of asylum” are denied rights while seemingly living under the protection of …