ICE-QUEEN researcher Árdís K. Ingvars recently published the article Poetic desirability: refugee men’s border tactics against white desire in NORMA – International Journal for Masculinity Studies. The article explores how former refugee men position their desirability as they un-settle in European countries. The masculine performance of desirability is examined through the intersectional lens of racialization, affective bordering, sexualities, and erotic encounters. The research builds on multi-sited ethnographies, conducted mainly in Greece and Germany between 2012 and 2022. Data collection carried out late in the ethnographic process is built partly on interviews and interactions carried out in Greece in 2022 as part of Dr. Ingvars’ fieldwork for Queer Refugees in Queer Utopias: Inclusions and Exclusions.

While the article is unfortunately not open access, you can easily receive copy of it. Simply write an email to akingvars@hi.is and request it.

Another article built on data collection from this project by Dr. Ingvars with the working title Event(ual) queer crafting in buckled up temporalities of Dublin regulated SOGIE refugees is currently under review at the Italian Sociological Review.