David A.B. Murray is Professor of Anthropology at York University, Canada.

• Acknowledgments / Introduction / 1. Queering the Queer Migration to Liberation Nation Narrative / 2. Becoming an ‘Authentic’ SOGI Refugee / 3. How to be Gay (Refugee Version) / 4. Producing Documentation for SOGI Refugee Claims / 5. Discourse and Emotion in SOGI Refugee Hearings / 6. National Documentation Packages and Expert Witness Reports / 7. The Challenge of Home / Conclusion: The New Normal / Bibliography

In the proliferation of public attention on the sexual orientation and gender identity (SOGI) refugee in Canada, David AB Murray’s Real Queer? Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Refugees in the Canadian Refugee Apparatus is a compelling and significant critical examination of how this category is (re)produced and its relationship to a larger discourse of Canadian homonationalism.... The greatest strength of Real Queer? is its integration of ethnographic work into a broader framework that examines how homonationalist discourses are constructed. Murray’s ability to work with multiple scales and sites is one of the great achievements of this book.... Murray’s Real Queer? Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Refugees in the Canadian Refugee Apparatus has set itself up as a critical volume for both queer and refugee theorists, and has admirably bridged these two areas of research through the contestation of parallel, and intertwined, hegemonic narratives. Even as the construction of the hegemonic ‘queer migration to liberation nation’ narrative is persuasively set up, the agency of individual actors in resisting such discourses also remains centre stage.

David A.B. Murray is Professor of Anthropology at York University, Canada.

• Acknowledgments / Introduction / 1. Queering the Queer Migration to Liberation Nation Narrative / 2. Becoming an ‘Authentic’ SOGI Refugee / 3. How to be Gay (Refugee Version) / 4. Producing Documentation for SOGI Refugee Claims / 5. Discourse and Emotion in SOGI Refugee Hearings / 6. National Documentation Packages and Expert Witness Reports / 7. The Challenge of Home / Conclusion: The New Normal / Bibliography

In the proliferation of public attention on the sexual orientation and gender identity (SOGI) refugee in Canada, David AB Murray’s Real Queer? Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Refugees in the Canadian Refugee Apparatus is a compelling and significant critical examination of how this category is (re)produced and its relationship to a larger discourse of Canadian homonationalism.... The greatest strength of Real Queer? is its integration of ethnographic work into a broader framework that examines how homonationalist discourses are constructed. Murray’s ability to work with multiple scales and sites is one of the great achievements of this book.... Murray’s Real Queer? Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Refugees in the Canadian Refugee Apparatus has set itself up as a critical volume for both queer and refugee theorists, and has admirably bridged these two areas of research through the contestation of parallel, and intertwined, hegemonic narratives. Even as the construction of the hegemonic ‘queer migration to liberation nation’ narrative is persuasively set up, the agency of individual actors in resisting such discourses also remains centre stage.

David A.B. Murray is Professor of Anthropology at York University, Canada.

• Acknowledgments / Introduction / 1. Queering the Queer Migration to Liberation Nation Narrative / 2. Becoming an ‘Authentic’ SOGI Refugee / 3. How to be Gay (Refugee Version) / 4. Producing Documentation for SOGI Refugee Claims / 5. Discourse and Emotion in SOGI Refugee Hearings / 6. National Documentation Packages and Expert Witness Reports / 7. The Challenge of Home / Conclusion: The New Normal / Bibliography

In the proliferation of public attention on the sexual orientation and gender identity (SOGI) refugee in Canada, David AB Murray’s Real Queer? Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Refugees in the Canadian Refugee Apparatus is a compelling and significant critical examination of how this category is (re)produced and its relationship to a larger discourse of Canadian homonationalism.... The greatest strength of Real Queer? is its integration of ethnographic work into a broader framework that examines how homonationalist discourses are constructed. Murray’s ability to work with multiple scales and sites is one of the great achievements of this book.... Murray’s Real Queer? Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Refugees in the Canadian Refugee Apparatus has set itself up as a critical volume for both queer and refugee theorists, and has admirably bridged these two areas of research through the contestation of parallel, and intertwined, hegemonic narratives. Even as the construction of the hegemonic ‘queer migration to liberation nation’ narrative is persuasively set up, the agency of individual actors in resisting such discourses also remains centre stage.