from [al'manja] with love : Trans_ feministische Positionierungen zu Rassismus und Migratismus

Sammanfattning: from [al'manja} with love revisits Critical Migration Studies with the insights of postcolonial and decolonial approaches and carves out a perspectlve on power relations that brlngs together transnational feminism and 'trans(gender) polltics'.I dlscuss what racism and migratlsm mean in a German and European context, and work out how they shape hegemonlc understandings of 'Germany' and 'Europe'. These locatlons are understood as geopolitlcal spaces where multiple transnational ti'ans_storles of migrationdiaspora, movement, staying and transing meet, resonate and dissonate. I elaborate on the assumption that the equalization of racism and migratism and the homogenizing use of 'culture' and 'nation' in the field of Ciitical Migration Studies render Europeans of Color unthinkable, as abject positions in migration discourses, even within knowledge production on 'migration' with critlcal intentions.My approach questions essentialized notions of be_Ionging, home and community and I propose the conceptualization of trans_diasporlng - a power sensitive polltical perspective that deconstructs categolical gendering and categorical nationallzation within a postcolonial framework.