Last date for submission of paper: unknown; Contact person: CRASSH; Convenors Geoffrey Maguire (University of Cambridge) Leila Mukhida (University of Cambridge) Tiffany Page (University of Cambridge) Keynote speaker Professor Gayatri Gopinath (Director, Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality; NYU) Summary Critical debates in migration and diaspora studies have long ignored issues of sexuality and queerness. The figures of the migrant and the refugee have become normalised as cis-gender and heterosexual through cultural, political and media narratives, as well as in academic discourse. Mainstream references to LGBTQ+ migrants are exceptional and tend towards placing these subjects within a problematic Western-centric narrative of global mobility as