Introduction: queering migration and asylum -- Universal humanity vs. national citizenship: the example of same-sex partner immigration in Europe -- The gay person always looks for the big European city': the sexual migration of Latin American gay men in London -- Rethinking diaspora: Queer Poles, Brazilians and Russians in Berlin -- An exercise in detachment: the Council of Europe and sexual minority asylum claims -- On the government of bisexual bodies: asylum case law and the biopolitics of bisexual erasure -- (Des)haciendo fronteras: Latin American LGBTIQ* asylum seekers in Spain in the process of credibility assessment -- Between homonationalism and Islamophobia: comparing Queer Caribbean and Muslim asylum-seeking in/to the Netherlands -- 'They sent me to the mountain': the role of space, faith and support groups for LGBTIQ+ asylum claimants -- The (micro-)politics of support for LGBT asylum-seekers in France -- 'How much of a lesbian are you?' Experiences of LGBT asylum seekers in immigration detention in the UK