: Making Sexuality, Gender, and Migration Intersectional

This presentation brings together recent literatures on migration, sexuality, and gender in order to account for an intersectional lens, particularly in sociology. Based on one of the chapters in Mary Romero's Research Handbook on Intersectionality, and focusing on two Dossiers - one from Sexualities journal on Queer Migration, Asylum, and Displacement, the other in the Ethnic and Racial Studies journal, focused on Sexual Politics of Border Control - the chapter offers a critical review of these, and illustrates how the themes of gender, sexuality, and migration may or may not flow from those individual contributions. Special issues/dossiers are ideal site of analysis to explore the uses and limitations of intersectionality in terms of the research methods applied, intended and successful application of intersectionality, and analysis of findings through the lens of intersectionality. A central proposition is to better connect the focus of gender and sexualaity (which at times is reduced to LGBTQI communities, or cisgender women's issues) wit the focus on migration (immigration and, by extension, displacement and refugee and asylum status). The conclusion offers lessons learned and propose alternatives to making sociological work intersectional..