Queer and Trans Migrations
Dynamics of Illegalization, Detention, and Deportation
Published on 13. October 2020
Book
Paperback/Softback
304 pages
978-0-252-08523-9 (ISBN)
Description
More than a quarter of a million LGBTQ-identified migrants in the United States lack documentation and constantly risk detention and deportation. LGBTQ migrants around the world endure similarly precarious situations. Eithne LuibhEid's and Karma R. ChAvez's edited collection provides a first-of-its-kind look at LGBTQ migrants and communities. The academics, activists, and artists in the volume center illegalization, detention, and deportation in national and transnational contexts, and examine how migrants and allies negotiate, resist, refuse, and critique these processes. The works contribute to the fields of gender and sexuality studies, critical race and ethnic studies, borders and migration studies, and decolonial studies. Bridging voices and works from inside and outside of the academy, and international in scope, Queer and Trans Migrations illuminates new perspectives in the field of queer and trans migration studies.
Contributors: Andrew J. Brown, Julio CapO, Jr., Anna Carastathis, Jack CAraves, Karma R. ChAvez, Ryan Conrad, Elif, Katherine Fobear, Monisha Das Gupta, Jamila Hammami, Edward Ou Jin Lee, Leece Lee-Oliver, Eithne LuibhEid, Hana Masri, Yasmin Nair, Bamby Salcedo, Fadi Saleh, Rafael Ramirez SolOrzano, JosE Guadalupe Herrera Soto, Myrto Tsilimpounidi, Suyapa Portillo Villeda, Sasha Wijeyeratne, Ruben Zecena
Contributors: Andrew J. Brown, Julio CapO, Jr., Anna Carastathis, Jack CAraves, Karma R. ChAvez, Ryan Conrad, Elif, Katherine Fobear, Monisha Das Gupta, Jamila Hammami, Edward Ou Jin Lee, Leece Lee-Oliver, Eithne LuibhEid, Hana Masri, Yasmin Nair, Bamby Salcedo, Fadi Saleh, Rafael Ramirez SolOrzano, JosE Guadalupe Herrera Soto, Myrto Tsilimpounidi, Suyapa Portillo Villeda, Sasha Wijeyeratne, Ruben Zecena
Reviews / Votes
"This book features unique historical and contemporary perspectives within the contexts of migration in various parts of the world. . . . Readers of the Quarterly Journal of Speech will glean a great deal of insight from the author's exploration of queer and trans migration studies, and how such studies connect with communication practice, through activists, organizers, artists, and scholars." --Quarterly Journal of Speech "Recommended." --Choice "An extraordinarily important volume bringing together activists, artists, and academics, Queer and Trans Migrations models the wide range of approaches that can help us understand and challenge the heteronormative frameworks, settler-colonialist politics, and racialized logics affecting migration, detention, and deportation."--Erica Rand, author of The Ellis Island Snow GlobeMore details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Baltimore
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Illustrations
8 color photographs, 8 black & white photographs
Dimensions
Height: 233 mm
Width: 157 mm
Thickness: 20 mm
Weight
467 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-252-08523-9 (9780252085239)
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Schweitzer Classification
Persons
Eithne LuibhEid is a professor in the Department of Gender and Women's Studies at the University of Arizona. She is the author of Pregnant on Arrival: Making the Illegal Immigrant and Entry Denied: Controlling Sexuality at the Border. Karma R. ChAvez is an associate professor in the Department of Mexican American and Latina/o Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. She is the author of Queer Migration Politics: Activist Rhetoric and Coalitional Possibilities and Palestine on the Air.
Content
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Karma R. ChAvez and Eithne LuibhEid
Part I: Contextualizing
1. "Treated Neither with Respect nor with Dignity": Contextualizing Queer and Trans Migrant 'Illegalization,' Detention and Deportation
Eithne LuibhEid
2. "Prevent Miami from Becoming a Refugium Peccatorum": Policing Black Bahamian Women and Making the Straight, White State, 1890-1940
Julio CapO, Jr.
3. From Potlucks to Protests: Reflections from Organizing Queer and Trans API Communities
Sasha Wijeyeratne
Part II: Negotiating Systems
4. Central American Migrants: LGBTI Asylum Cases Seeking Justice and Making History
Suyapa Portillo Villeda
5. Resettlement as Securitization: War, Humanitarianism, and the Production of Syrian LGBT Refugees
Fadi Saleh
6. Unsafe Present, Uncertain Future: LGBTI Asylum in Turkey
Elif
7. Welcome to Miami: Linking Place, Race and UndocuQueer Youth Activism
Rafael Ramirez SolOrzano
8. O Canada: HIV Not Welcome Here
Ryan Conrad
Part III: Resisting/Refusing
9. Bridging Immigration Justice and Prison Abolition
Jamila Hammami
10. Withdrawn
11. Facing Crisis: Queer Representations against the Backdrop of Athens
Myrto Tsilimpounidi and Anna Carastathis
12. Fantasy Subjects: Dissonant Performances of Belonging in Queer African Refugee Resettlement
Andrew J. Brown
13. Validation Through Documentation: Integrating Activism, Research & Scholarship to Highlight (Validate) Trans Latin@ Immigrant Lives
Jack CAraves and Bamby Salcedo
14. Shameless Interruptions: Finding Survival at the Edges of Trans and Queer Migrations
Ruben Zecena
Part IV: Critiquing
15. Monarchs and Queers
Yasmin Nair
16. The Price of Survival: Family Separation, Coercion, and Help
JosE Guadalupe Herrera Soto
17. The Rhetoric of Family in the US Immigration Movement: A Queer Migration Analysis of the 2014 Central American Child Migrant "Crisis"
Karma R. ChAvez and Hana Masri
18. Imperialism, Settler Colonialism, and Indigeneity: A Queer Migration Roundtable
Leece Lee-Oliver, Monisha Das Gupta, Katherine Fobear, and Edward Ou Jin Lee
Contributors
Index
Artist Statements
Introduction
Karma R. ChAvez and Eithne LuibhEid
Part I: Contextualizing
1. "Treated Neither with Respect nor with Dignity": Contextualizing Queer and Trans Migrant 'Illegalization,' Detention and Deportation
Eithne LuibhEid
2. "Prevent Miami from Becoming a Refugium Peccatorum": Policing Black Bahamian Women and Making the Straight, White State, 1890-1940
Julio CapO, Jr.
3. From Potlucks to Protests: Reflections from Organizing Queer and Trans API Communities
Sasha Wijeyeratne
Part II: Negotiating Systems
4. Central American Migrants: LGBTI Asylum Cases Seeking Justice and Making History
Suyapa Portillo Villeda
5. Resettlement as Securitization: War, Humanitarianism, and the Production of Syrian LGBT Refugees
Fadi Saleh
6. Unsafe Present, Uncertain Future: LGBTI Asylum in Turkey
Elif
7. Welcome to Miami: Linking Place, Race and UndocuQueer Youth Activism
Rafael Ramirez SolOrzano
8. O Canada: HIV Not Welcome Here
Ryan Conrad
Part III: Resisting/Refusing
9. Bridging Immigration Justice and Prison Abolition
Jamila Hammami
10. Withdrawn
11. Facing Crisis: Queer Representations against the Backdrop of Athens
Myrto Tsilimpounidi and Anna Carastathis
12. Fantasy Subjects: Dissonant Performances of Belonging in Queer African Refugee Resettlement
Andrew J. Brown
13. Validation Through Documentation: Integrating Activism, Research & Scholarship to Highlight (Validate) Trans Latin@ Immigrant Lives
Jack CAraves and Bamby Salcedo
14. Shameless Interruptions: Finding Survival at the Edges of Trans and Queer Migrations
Ruben Zecena
Part IV: Critiquing
15. Monarchs and Queers
Yasmin Nair
16. The Price of Survival: Family Separation, Coercion, and Help
JosE Guadalupe Herrera Soto
17. The Rhetoric of Family in the US Immigration Movement: A Queer Migration Analysis of the 2014 Central American Child Migrant "Crisis"
Karma R. ChAvez and Hana Masri
18. Imperialism, Settler Colonialism, and Indigeneity: A Queer Migration Roundtable
Leece Lee-Oliver, Monisha Das Gupta, Katherine Fobear, and Edward Ou Jin Lee
Contributors
Index
Artist Statements