Migration itself can operate as a liberating practice of desire

Evidence

In these circumstances, social networks are heightened in terms of fictive kin and intimate relations. Migration in certain ways disrupts the heteronormative order in what Nayan Shah (2001) has called queer domesticity, so that heterosexual migrants are queered as non-normative. … The act of migration itself might be understood as a liberating practice of desire and pleasure that in important ways highlights not only erotic socialities, but also other forms of non-sexual imagining that are fraught with structural barriers and impossibilities. — Junaid Rana, Terrifying Muslims, 53

Categorization

• DEFINE: Introduces Nayan Shah’s concept of queer domesticity to describe how migration queers heterosexual migrants as non-normative
• QUESTION: The claim that migration can be read as liberating desire seems provocative — worth chasing the fuller argument in Shah 2001