The workshop, funded by the Swedish Foundation for Humanities and Societies (Riksbankens Jubileumsfond), brought together 25 researchers, scholar-activists, activists and activist-migrants based in different countries in Europe and working on queer migrations and mobilities in a European context to exchange their ideas and experience.

Migrants seeking asylum on grounds of sexuality and gender identity persecution, individuals in transnational queer relationships who seek residency on the basis of family ties are just some examples of individuals and groups who create and sustain queer migrations and mobilities in contemporary Europe.

During the workshop, participants had the chance to discuss the changes they are struggling for and the need to form a specific Queer Migration Network in contemporary Europe.

This network, which will start off as an information-sharing network, hopes to cooperate with the already existing US based queer migration research network established by Karma Chávez, University of Wisconsin, and Eithne Luibhéid, University of Arizona.

Other outcomes of the workshop included investigating the possibilities for a PhD summer course on queer migration at Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany, and the decision to organize panels on issues pertaining to queer migration at relevant conferences. The network also hopes to be able to arrange further workshops in the future.

The workshop organized by Eda H. Farsakoglu (Department of Sociology and Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Lund University), Åsa Lundqvist (Department of Sociology at Lund University), and  Sara Ahlstedt (REMESO, Linköping University) included paper presentations on topics such as queer asylum, queer diaspora, queer partner/same-sex migration, and queer activism as it connects to migration.