Significant EU in-migration by non-traditional populations is arguably creating a paradox in post-national debates on the “meaning of border and multicultural foundations of EU(ropean) societies"( Lister and Pia, 2008). To date, few debates on EU migration have additionally regarded the conception and enforcement of democratic or humanitarian ideals on the mobility of sexual minorities.  On one hand, regional responses point to an expanded capacity for “post national structures and models of regional integration blocs"( Delanty, 2006)  to form new civil, social and political networks and affiliations beyond traditional models of “state-centric citizenship". On the other hand, super-state structures have practically failed at key junctures to address growing social ambivalence on the need to explicitly protect the interests of sexual minorities across LGBT and female communities.  Even further, the mediated focus on economic crises in multiple sectors, chronic sub-replacement population levels and public resistance to austerity plans may have shifted attention from these well established, long-term regional civic goals. In this context, coordinated regional responses to current migration may have an unanticipated impact on the movement and well-being of previously marginalised gender and sexual groups. 

This interdisciplinary panel progressively considers the novel impact of multinational state responses on a diversifying migrant population, it challenges the presumably static and unidirectional articulation of citizenship interests. It interrogates the ways that notions and rules on movement and citizenship are engendered as well as explores the capacity for the movement of sexual minorities to force a negotiation of a more resilient and nuanced understandings of civil protection and affiliation.