Abstract
ABSTRACT This article draws attention to narrative practices in LGBTI refugee advocacy work in the scope of the media. In dialogue with two human rights documentaries, Out of Iraq: A Love Story by Chris McKim and Eva Orner (2016) and Unsettled: Seeking Refuge in America by Tom Shepard (2019), I discuss the usage of LGBTI asylum seekers’ and refugees’ life stories in advocacy media and its ramifications for queer visibility in migration politics. Following narrative hermeneutics’ performative understanding of narratives, I argue for a “non-subsumptive” approach that acknowledges both the destructive and subversive possibilities of narrative practices and highlights the role of the interpreter. I argue that a self-reflexive and nuanced interpretation process enables a more ethical practice of narrating and interpreting stories of distant and vulnerable others for activism and research.
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