Crossing borders: the intersectional marginalisation of Bulgarian Muslim trans*immigrant sex workers in Berlin

Bordering situates immigrant sex workers at the margins of an already marginalised industry and naturalises the legal conditions of their dispossession and precarity. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork in Berlin, we offer a situated intersectional analysis of the everyday bordering experiences of Muslim trans*immigrant sex workers from Bulgaria (hereafter TISWs). Focusing on three interactional contexts – minority belonging within EU and German politics, encounters with medicolegal institutions, and the new sex work regulation in Germany – our study demonstrates both that everyday bordering experiences derive not solely from national border enforcement and citizenship regulation but also from intersectional sociocultural barriers imposed by non-state actors, while the internal bordering practices of the German state exacerbate the exclusion and marginalisation of sex/gender transgressive people and sex work. We conclude that despite their physical existence as EU citizens in Berlin, TISWs’ everyday bordering experiences require a more nuanced understanding of intersectional systems of oppression which postpones TISWs’ arrival in Berlin indefinitely.Peer Reviewe

Social Reproduction Gone Wrong? The Citizenship Revocation and Rehabilitation of Young European Women Who Joined ISIS

Some European women who joined the Islamic State during the 2010s have had their citizenship revoked, which leaves them in a liminal state in camps at the Syrian border. Others have been able to return home, where they face prosecution and potential pathways to “rehabilitation.” This article turns to media discussions of two cases that have been extensively discussed in the media: Shamima Begum, a British national whose citizenship was revoked, and Laura Hansen, a Dutch national who was rehabilitated. Our analysis homes in on the symbolic dimension of social reproduction, showing how media representations of these two women as mothers, wives, and daughters play a critical role in media justifications of revocation and rehabilitation. We argue that media discourses create a gendered, racialized, and class-based conceptualization of citizenship unattainable to those whose social reproductive labor is deemed a threat to the nation-state.Peer Reviewe

Late-Stage Metastatic Melanoma Emerges through a Diversity of Evolutionary Pathways

UNLABELLED: Understanding the evolutionary pathways to metastasis and resistance to immune-checkpoint inhibitors (ICI) in melanoma is critical for improving outcomes. Here, we present the most comprehensive intrapatient metastatic melanoma dataset assembled to date as part of the Posthumous Evaluation of Advanced Cancer Environment (PEACE) research autopsy program, including 222 exome sequencing, 493 panel-sequenced, 161 RNA sequencing, and 22 single-cell whole-genome sequencing samples from 14 ICI-treated patients. We observed frequent whole-genome doubling and widespread loss of heterozygosity, often involving antigen-presentation machinery. We found KIT extrachromosomal DNA may have contributed to the lack of response to KIT inhibitors of a KIT-driven melanoma. At the lesion-level, MYC amplifications were enriched in ICI nonresponders. Single-cell sequencing revealed polyclonal seeding of metastases originating from clones with different ploidy in one patient. Finally, we observed that brain metastases that diverged early in molecular evolution emerge late in disease. Overall, our study illustrates the diverse evolutionary landscape of advanced melanoma. SIGNIFICANCE: Despite treatment advances, melanoma remains a deadly disease at stage IV. Through research autopsy and dense sampling of metastases combined with extensive multiomic profiling, our study elucidates the many mechanisms that melanomas use to evade treatment and the immune system, whether through mutations, widespread copy-number alterations, or extrachromosomal DNA. See related commentary by Shain, p. 1294. This article is highlighted in the In This Issue feature, p. 1275

Le Dutch Royal Library Disc

Korteweg Anna Sophia. Le Dutch Royal Library Disc. In: Le médiéviste et l'ordinateur, N°26-27, Automne 1992 - printemps 1993 1992. Traitements informatiques et iconographie. pp. 26-27

Liberal feminism and postcolonial difference: Debating headscarves in France, the Netherlands, and Germany

In this article, we analyze headscarf debates that unfolded in the first decade of the twenty-first century in France, the Netherlands, and Germany. Through a socio-historical overview looking at newspaper articles and policy and legal documents, we show how the headscarf has become a site for negotiating immigrant-related, postcolonial difference. We argue that certain feminist understanding of gender liberation and postcolonial difference in the headscarf debates reveal the continuity of control mechanisms from the colonial to the postcolonial era. We highlight the possibilities for decolonial thought and practice by centering the situatedness of headscarf. This allows us to show how Muslim citizens are active participants in producing contemporary Western European histories even as some of their practices face overt rejection.Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin https://doi.org/10.13039/501100006211Peer Reviewe

“Honour”-based violence and the politics of culture in Canada: Advancing a cultural analysis of multiscalar violence

Since 2015, in Canada, political discourse on “honour”-based violence has shifted away from highly problematic understandings of “culture” as the cause of violence among racialized, Muslim, and immigrant communities. Instead, talk of culture has dropped out of the equation altogether in favour of more structural definitions of gender-based violence (GBV). In this article, we ask what gets lost when culture is not taken into account when talking about or trying to understand forms of GBV. Drawing from theoretical conceptualizations of culture — defined as “situated practices of meaning-making” that shape all experiences of violence, and societal responses to violence — we argue for a multiscalar approach to culture. To illustrate this framework, we first offer a critical analysis of Aruna Papp’s 2012 memoir Unworthy Creature as an exemplar of stigmatizing uses of culture and a key text promoted by the Conservative federal government at the time. We then turn to interviews we conducted with service providers serving South Asian survivors of GBV in Toronto from 2011 to 2013. Our analysis illustrates how to talk about culture as a key ingredient shaping multiscalar violence, regardless of whether that violence occurs in majority or minority communities. We conclude with three policy implications for addressing HBV moving forward

Politique de la culture et culture politique : Les enjeux démocratiques du débat sur la Charte des valeurs québécoises

Cet article cherche à préciser la relation entre la politique et la culture dans le processus de construction de la nationalité dans les sociétés diversifiées. À partir d’une analyse approfondie des débats des principaux partis politiques autour de la Charte des valeurs québécoises (2013), nous jugeons que cette relation a deux dimensions principales. La première dimension – la « culture politique » – cerne le rôle des partis politiques dans la réarticulation de normes culturelles par le maniement de pratiques politiques établies. La deuxième dimension – la « politique de la culture » – souligne la capacité des partis politiques à générer de nouvelles significations culturelles alors qu’ils tentent d’obtenir ou de conserver le pouvoir politique. En distinguant ces deux dimensions dans le contexte de la Charte des valeurs québécoises, nous sommes plus à même de comprendre en quoi la culture nourrit, et est produite par, les conflits entre partis politiques au sujet de la nationalité, de la diversité et de l’appartenance.This article seeks to clarify the relationship between politics and culture in the process of nation-building in diverse societies. Based on a thorough analysis of the debates around the main political parties of the Quebec Charter of Values (2013), we posit that this relationship has two main dimensions. The first dimension—the “political culture”—identifies the role of political parties in the re-articulation of cultural norms through established political practices. The second dimension—the “politics of culture”—emphasizes the ability of political parties to generate new cultural meanings as they try to obtain or maintain political power. By separating these two dimensions in the context of the Quebec Charter of Values, we are better able to understand how culture nourishes, and is produced by, the conflicts between political parties concerning nationality, diversity and belonging

View to the U: An eye on UTM Research

This is an audio recording from the podcast series "View to the U: An eye on UTM research".On this edition of VIEW to the U, Professor Anna Korteweg from the Department of Sociology at U of T Mississauga talks about the motivations behind her research in immigration integration, policy and practices. She also outlines the work she has done with her long-time collaborator from Humboldt University in Germany, Professor Gökçe Yurdakul. Very much in keeping with this “Adventures in Research” season of the podcast, Anna has a couple of academic anecdotes to share, but she also talks about the influence and importance of stories people tell, as well as the life lessons to be learned from knitting, Her research focuses on the political debates regarding the integration of Muslim immigrants at the intersections of gender, religion, ethnicity and national origin in Western Europe and Canada. She has analyzed debates surrounding the wearing of the headscarf, “honour-based” violence, and Sharia law

Criminalizing “Marriage Fraud” at multiple borders: Tracing the gendered and racialized effects of crimmigration in Canada.

This is the PDF of a presentation given at the CINETS Crimmigration Conference, October 6-7, 2016 at the University of Maryland. The same presentation was also given at the Society for Social Work and Research Conference 2017. The French version of this presentation is also available in the TSpace under the title: "Criminaliser la «fraude relative au mariage» à travers la stratégie des frontières multiples du Canada