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December 24, 2025
December 14, Queer Migrations Symposium 2: Borders, Technologies and Decolonial Resistance
Date: 2025/11/30
I am delighted to invite you all to the upcoming Queer Migrations Symposium 2: Borders, Technologies and Decolonial Resistance, following on from the successful first edition of the event held in June.
Date: 14 December 2025 (Sunday)
Venue: Design and Creative Center Kobe (KIITO)
Language: English
Hosted by the Kobe Migration Research Centre, Kobe University
Featuring Shu Lea Cheang, Skye R. Tinevimbo Chirape, Haile Matutu, Shubha Kayastha, a roundtable on migrant sex work with Chihiro Toya, Giovanna Rincon and Fairy Abdulghani.
The second Queer Migrations Symposium of 2025 brings together scholars, activists, and artists to critically engage with the intensifying hostilities faced by queer migrants worldwide. In an era marked by rising nationalism, anti-migrant, anti-egalitarian policies and transphobic violence, this symposium centres queer experiences of displacement, resistance, and belonging.
We aim to challenge dominant narratives of borders and citizenship by foregrounding decolonial perspectives that unsettle colonial logics and state-centric migration regimes. While digital technologies continue to shape visibility and mobility, our focus turns to the structural and affective violences that queer migrants navigate daily--from asylum systems and surveillance mechanisms to social exclusion and erasure.
For further details and registration, please see the poster or visit the event webpage: https://
Approved by ssjmod at 03:28 PM