Methodological heteronormativity and the “refugee crisis”

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Notes

1. See https://www.logolynx.com/images/logolynx/94/9448192a0b6db823ac59481aa8aeb042.png.

2. In the summer of 2018, the immigration sign was given a new iteration. In the wake of the scandal of the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement separating more than 2000 children from their parent(s) or adult caregiver(s), who are subjected to automatic detention (Tom Dart 2018), the immigration sign—albeit no longer visible along the border, which is now sealed by a fence, soon to become a wall—was used by one cartoonist to denounce the child separation policy in the USA. Added to the three familiar figures on the sign was the monstrous shadow of the current US president snatching the child, whose outstretched hand reaches for her mother, pigtails still billowing (Rob Rogers 2018).