Description
Book SynopsisTrade Review"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 GlobeTable of ContentsAcknowledgments
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 Withdrawn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
