Full 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 LuibhÉid's and Karma R. ChÁvez'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 CapÓ, Jr., Anna Carastathis, Jack CÁraves, Karma R. ChÁvez, Ryan Conrad, Elif, Katherine Fobear, Monisha Das Gupta, Jamila Hammami, Edward Ou Jin Lee, Leece Lee-Oliver, Eithne LuibhÉid, Hana Masri, Yasmin Nair, Bamby Salcedo, Fadi Saleh, Rafael Ramirez SolÓrzano, JosÉ Guadalupe Herrera Soto, Myrto Tsilimpounidi, Suyapa Portillo Villeda, Sasha Wijeyeratne, Ruben Zecena
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Karma R. ChÁvez and Eithne LuibhÉid
Part I: Contextualizing
1. "Treated Neither with Respect nor with Dignity": Contextualizing Queer and Trans Migrant 'Illegalization,' Detention and Deportation
Eithne LuibhÉid
2. "Prevent Miami from Becoming a Refugium Peccatorum": Policing Black Bahamian Women and Making the Straight, White State, 1890-1940
Julio CapÓ, 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 SolÓrzano
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 Withdrawn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 CÁraves 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
JosÉ 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. ChÁvez 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
