Hila Amit
Overview
- Name:
- Hila Amit
- Email address:
- 568553@soas.ac.uk
- Thesis title:
- Home and Away – Queer Palestinians and Israelis in the Diaspora
- Year of Study:
- 1
Internal Supervisors
PhD Research
My research attempts to investigate the experiences of queer migrants, focusing on Palestinians and Israelis in the Diaspora. Using qualitative methods, I will explore how these individuals conceptualize their sense of 'home', 'belonging' and 'community' in their new locations.
I will be using key theoretical categories within scholarships on migration, sexuality, race, ethnicity and other areas of research. This will facilitate proposal of new possibilities for re-theorizing queer life and experiences, thus exploring the limits and possibilities of intervention and agency.
As the question of Palestine/Israel conflict remains unsolved, the national narratives of both people invest much energy, thought and budget in bringing (or in wish to bring back) Palestinians and Jews to the homeland/s. My focus on queer Palestinian/Israeli emigration offers an interesting counter-experience to (and queering of) both narratives of aliyah and right of return.
PhD Conferences
- 8th European Feminist Research Conference, Budapest, Hungary, May 2012.
- "An Other Sex", Queer theory Conference, Tel-Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel June 2012
- "Mind the Gap", Gender and Activism Conference, the Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel
- "What is LGBT(Q) History and where to we stand", Queen Mary University, London, November 2012
