{"product_id":"pregnant-on-arrival-9780816681006","title":"Pregnant on Arrival","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eEithne Luibhéid exquisitely details how the Irish became embroiled in a politics over the sexuality and reproduction of mainly African refugees, leading to the controversial referendum denying birthright citizenship. \u003cem\u003ePregnant on Arrival\u003c\/em\u003e is the story of a nation of emigrants that suddenly finding itself a nation of immigrants, with a wealth of insights for anyone interested in how the law constructs the ‘illegal alien’ and renders pregnant mothers and their babies as threats to the nation.\u003cb\u003e—Leo R. Chavez, author of \u003cem\u003eThe Latino Threat: Constructing Immigrants, Citizens, and the Nation\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003ePregnant on Arrival\u003c\/em\u003e makes an enormous, essential contribution in demonstrating how women’s bodies and their sexuality become central to immigration controls. By bringing the question of queerness to bear on the ‘threat’ of pregnant asylum seekers in Ireland, Luibhéid charts how a queer migration framework that simultaneously attends to geopolitics, nation-building, gender, and race, can shed light on the sexual politics of determining who is a legitimate immigrant, asylum seeker, and neoliberal subject worthy of citizenship.\u003cb\u003e—Monisha Das Gupta, author of \u003cem\u003eUnruly Immigrants: Rights, Activism, and Transnational South Asian Politics in the United States \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eContents\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA Note on Terminology\u003cb\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e1. Shifting Boundaries through Discourses of Childbearing\u003cb\u003e2. Counternarratives of Migration Law and Childbearing\u003cb\u003e3. Baby Gives Birth to Parents: Direct Provision and Subject Formation\u003cb\u003e4. The “Right to Life of the Unborn” and Migration Controls\u003cb\u003e5. Reproductive Futurism and the Temporality of Migration Control\u003cb\u003e6. From Childbearing to Multiple Sexuality and Migration Struggles\u003cb\u003eConclusion\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003eAcknowledgments\u003cb\u003eNotes\u003cb\u003eIndex\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Minnesota Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49405970940247,"sku":"9780816681006","price":19.79,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780816681006.jpg?v=1730494092","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/pregnant-on-arrival-9780816681006","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}