Bordering Queer Ethnic Minorities and Social Movement Contestation

Abstract

Abstract Understanding the occurrence of multiple-identity markers can be challenging. These experiences can render one vulnerable to multiple minority stressors. This thesis attempts to solve this by utilizing border and feminist concepts. The theoretical framework understands borders as processes and performances, in order to analyse the internet presence of two central organizations for queer ethnic minorities’ in Norway: Queer World and Salam. The findings illustrate the many borders traversing subjects with multiple social markers. Furthermore, the thesis also examined how these organizations can contest the borders and divided their strategies into two themes: reactionary and innovative. Together these activities are resisting, redefining existing borders, as well as partaking in the development of new border meanings. These borders do not perceive categories such as queer and ethnic minority as mutually exclusive. Further research on border processes in relation to queer ethnic minorities could further the inquires on how social movements can develop new borders in mobilization strategies.