@article{2320e9bf13674e1e8598ef0735dd682d,
title = "Migrant Sexualities, Queer Travelers: Iranian Bears and the Asylum of Translation in Turkey",
author = "Emrah Yildiz",
note = "Funding Information: This article is dedicated to Karim and Sahand, who have always picked their own pseudonyms. Die Zeit Stiftung Bucerius Fellowship in Migration Studies, Harvard University{\textquoteright}s Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, and Harvard{\textquoteright}s Anthropology Department funded my research. The Sexualities Project at Northwestern University afforded me writing time and further research in Germany—a resettlement country for queer refugees. All translations from Turkish, Azeri, and Persian are mine. All transliterations follow ijmes guidelines. For their generous comments on this essay in its various iterations over a decade, I am grateful to Adia Benton, Naor Ben-Yehoyada, Ergin Bulut, Bas¸ak Can, Se{\c c}il Dagˇtas¸. Esra Demir, Darcie DeAn-gelo, Alireza Doostdar, Sarah Fredricks, Ghenwa Hayek, Angie Heo, J. K{\^e}haulani Kaunui, Darryl Li, Elham Mireshghi, Afsaneh Najmabadi, Negar Sadat Razavi, Sarah Schulman, Sima Shakhsari, Nazan {\"U}st{\"u}ndag˘, Shirin Vossoughi, Sepehr Vakil and Ida Yalzadeh. I also thank audience members at aub, cuny, the Social Science Research Center in Berlin, the Istanbul Pride 2013, as well as Harvard, Sabanci, and Wesleyan universities. The generous comments of the anonymous differences reviewers greatly strengthened my analysis. Denise Davis generously guided the process. Allison Brown improved the clarity and flow of my prose with her editing.",
year = "2022",
month = may,
day = "1",
doi = "10.1215/10407391-9735484",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "33",
pages = "119--147",
journal = "Differences",
issn = "1040-7391",
publisher = "Duke University Press",
number = "1",
}