Migrations and refuge LGBT+: sexual democracy in times of crisis

Abstract

This article reflects on the invisibility of migration and the refuge of LGBT+ people, a fact that causes a series of risks and violence against those bodies, making them the most vulnerable in the migration process. Thus, based on the concepts of precariousness and “precarity” by Judith Butler, necropolitics by Achulle Mbembe and sexual democracy by Eric Fassin, this article seeks to reflect on how the invisibility and absence of public policies for LGBT+ migrants and refugees intensify their vulnerability in times of crisis, such as the COVID-19 pandemic. Therefore, with a critical view this text describes the trajectory of migration studies, approaching the invisibility of dissident heteronormativity and cisnormativity or cissexism, the international and the Mexican legal framework on the protection of transnational migrants and LGBT+ refugees, pointing out how riskier and most vulnerable the scenery of global health crisis are for LGBT+ migrants.