caa a22 4500 606232486 CHVBK 20210128101227.0 cr unu---uuuuu 210128e20150701xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s10508-015-0551-z doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s10508-015-0551-z Becoming Gay? Immigration Policies and the Truth of Sexual Identity [Elektronische Daten] [Eric Fassin, Manuela Salcedo] Our article is about the new relevance of the category of "the homosexual” in immigration policies. This novelty is paradoxical: while homosexuality had previously been defined exclusively in negative terms, from the point of view of the State, it has now assumed a positive value in the West—since it can be invoked to justify asylum seeking. The argument has two prongs. On the one hand, taking homosexuality into account for immigration control implies a definition of gay identity. On the other, the objects of these policies are also subjects: their own identity is caught up in this transnational process of identification. Fieldwork for this article was conducted in France on bi-national same-sex couples. However, the new categorization of homosexuality extends far beyond—in Europe and throughout the world. We argue that the politics of identity are not just, and not primarily about identity politics; they have to do both with politics in general and policies in particular. Springer Science+Business Media New York, 2015 Homosexuality nationallicence Sexual migration nationallicence Immigration policies nationallicence Identity nationallicence Sexual orientation nationallicence DSM-5 nationallicence Fassin Eric Department of Political Science and Department of Gender Studies, Université Paris 8, 2 Rue de la Liberté, 93526, Saint-Denis, France aut Salcedo Manuela Department of Sociology, Research Laboratory, Institut de Recherche Interdisciplinaire sur les Enjeux Sociaux, School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences, Inserm, Paris, France aut Archives of Sexual Behavior Springer US; http://www.springer-ny.com 44/5(2015-07-01), 1117-1125 0004-0002 44:5<1117 2015 44 10508 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10508-015-0551-z text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10508-015-0551-z text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Fassin Eric Department of Political Science and Department of Gender Studies, Université Paris 8, 2 Rue de la Liberté, 93526, Saint-Denis, France aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Salcedo Manuela Department of Sociology, Research Laboratory, Institut de Recherche Interdisciplinaire sur les Enjeux Sociaux, School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences, Inserm, Paris, France aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Archives of Sexual Behavior Springer US; http://www.springer-ny.com 44/5(2015-07-01), 1117-1125 0004-0002 44:5<1117 2015 44 10508