ABSTRACT
The individual experience of the gender and sexual minority asylum seeker or refugee is located within a set of humanitarian-inflected discourses that privileges suffering and trauma as proof of authenticity. Humanitarian logic tends to depict asylum seekers as compassion-recipients rather than rights-claimants thus delegitimizing them as political subjects. When examining the experiences of LGBT refugees, the analysis of the sexuality/gender category per se could not provide the necessary elements to make sense of the studied migrants' lives and migratory trajectories. In fact, sexual/gender difference is significant as one of the main determining factors of the respondents' states of precariousness. The analyses of social and political configurations such as homonormativity and homonationalism or the formations of a pink economy and pink-washing that queer theorists have addressed and advanced in the past decade were fundamental to discussing the instrumentalization of LGBT rights operated by states.
