Croire et soutenir dans une économie morale de la suspicion

In France, asylum applications are subject to a culture of suspicion that systematically calls into question the veracity and credibility of applicants’ stories. Taking an interest in LGBTI asylum, i.e. requests for protection from people exiled because of their sexual orientation or gender identity...

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Main Author: Grégory Beltran
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Language:English
Published: Université Catholique de Louvain 2024-06-01
Series:Recherches Sociologiques et Anthropologiques
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Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/rsa/6531
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description In France, asylum applications are subject to a culture of suspicion that systematically calls into question the veracity and credibility of applicants’ stories. Taking an interest in LGBTI asylum, i.e. requests for protection from people exiled because of their sexual orientation or gender identity, highlights both the fragility of the criteria – institutional and associative – for authenticating these accounts and the strength of this policy of suspicion, which influences even the forms of support. The aim of this research is to shift the focus from the construction of the category of “lying” and the verification mechanisms of asylum institutions to the effects of this category on support practices for LGBTI exiles. The article presents the methods of verification and the expectations of asylum institutions, particularly with regard to proof of homosexuality and transidentity. It goes on to analyse the complex relationship that actors in the field of support for exiles have with this category of “lying” redefined by the asylum administration, depen­ding in particular on their political and moral positioning in this field.
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Croire et soutenir dans une économie morale de la suspicion
Recherches Sociologiques et Anthropologiques
resistance
interculturality
comunalidad
knowledge hierarchies
colonialism
commons
title Croire et soutenir dans une économie morale de la suspicion
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title_full_unstemmed Croire et soutenir dans une économie morale de la suspicion
title_short Croire et soutenir dans une économie morale de la suspicion
title_sort croire et soutenir dans une economie morale de la suspicion
topic resistance
interculturality
comunalidad
knowledge hierarchies
colonialism
commons
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