Surveillance practices among migration officers: Online media and LGBTQ+ refugees

IF 1.5 2区社会学 Q1 CULTURAL STUDIES

International Journal of Cultural Studies Pub Date : 2022-12-05 DOI:10.1177/13678779221140129

Marie Lunau, R. Andreassen

引用次数: 3

Abstract

Examining Denmark as a case study, and focusing on LGBTQ+ asylum seekers in particular, this article investigates migration authorities’ use of online surveillance to assess claims for asylum. Drawing on interviews with migration officers and asylum seekers, the article describes how asylum seekers’ social media and phone content comes to determine whether they are seen as having a ‘genuine’ or a ‘fraudulent’ LGBTQ+ identity. The article further shows how surveillance implicates asylum seekers’ movement and (im)mobility, thereby ‘fixing’ their identities across time, preventing their ephemeral online engagement and, ultimately, affecting the outcome of their asylum claims. It also argues that the utilisation of surveillance technologies (for example, to review porn consumption and dating applications) favours gay (cis) men, while depriving lesbian, bisexual and transgender asylum seekers of opportunities to prove their identity.

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移民官员的监督做法：网络媒体和LGBTQ+难民

本文以丹麦为例，特别关注LGBTQ+寻求庇护者，调查了移民当局使用在线监控来评估庇护申请的情况。通过对移民官员和寻求庇护者的采访，这篇文章描述了寻求庇护者的社交媒体和电话内容如何确定他们是否被视为具有“真实”或“欺诈”的LGBTQ+身份。这篇文章进一步展示了监控如何影响寻求庇护者的运动和(非)流动性，从而“固定”他们的身份，阻止他们短暂的在线参与，并最终影响他们庇护申请的结果。它还认为，监控技术的使用(例如，审查色情消费和约会应用程序)有利于同性恋(cis)男性，同时剥夺了女同性恋、双性恋和跨性别寻求庇护者证明自己身份的机会。

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International Journal of Cultural Studies Multiple-

CiteScore

4.20

自引率

9.50%

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期刊介绍： International Journal of Cultural Studies is committed to rethinking cultural practices, processes, texts and infrastructures beyond traditional national frameworks and regional biases. The journal publishes theoretical, empirical and historical analyses that interrogate what culture means, and what culture does, across global and local scales of power and action, diverse technologies and forms of mediation, and multiple dimensions of performance, experience and identity. Dedicated to theoretical and methodological innovation in cultural research, the journal is multidisciplinary in outlook, publishing relevant contributions that integrate approaches from the social sciences, humanities, information sciences and more. International Journal of Cultural Studies publishes original research articles. The journal gives preference to papers that extend existing theory or generate new theory through interpretive engagement with empirical cases. Papers based on single country case-studies should clearly indicate and develop the broader relevance of their analyses for an international readership. The journal does not publish close readings of single texts; but it does consider critical, contextualised readings that similarly indicate and develop the broader relevance of their analyses to the field. International Journal of Cultural Studies regularly publishes special issues on urgent questions in the field as well as on specific regions, industries and practices.