Claiming home : migration biographies and everyday lives of queer migrant women in Switzerland Frontmatter Contents 1. Introduction 2. Immigration and Sexuality: Policies and Practices in Switzerland 3. Sexuality Migration Space 4. Methodology: Doing Research in an Intersectional Field 5. Shifting Positions of the Sexual Self 6. Family Matters 7. Diasporic Spaces Intersectional Homing Desires 8. Sexual Citizenship 9. Work 10. Scales of Identification: The City the Rural 11. Conclusion and Outlook Acknowledgments Résumé Bibliography Annex I: List of Research Participants Annex II: Overview of Collected Data Annex III: Technical Notes Claiming Home traces transnational configurations of sexualities through biographical narratives of queer migrant women. Situated between victimizing heteronormative and racialized stereotypes of migrant women on the one hand and the implicitly white figure of the lesbian on the other queer migrant women are rendered impossible subjects. Claiming Home maps how these women navigate diverging and often contradictory perspectives on sexuality conflicting loyalties and the multiple mechanisms of exclusion they are exposed to on account of their gender sexuality and immigrant status.