Queer and trans migrations : dynamics of illegalization, detention, and deportation / edited by Eithne Luibhéid and Karma R Chávez.

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"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...

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Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:Dissident feminisms.
Other Authors: Luibhéid, Eithne (Editor)
Chávez, Karma R. (Editor)
Language:English
Published: Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2020]
Series:Dissident feminisms.
Subjects:
Sexual minority immigrants > Social conditions > Case studies.
Sexual minority immigrants > Government policy > Case studies.
Detention of persons > Social aspects > Case studies.
Deportation > Social aspects > Case studies.
Deportation > Social aspects.
Case studies.
Genre:
Case studies.
Physical Description:271 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm.
Format: Book
Contents:
  • "Treated neither with respect nor with dignity" : contextualizing queer and trans migrant "illegalization," detention, and deportation / Eithne Luibhéid
  • "Prevent Miami from becoming a refugium peccatorum" : policing Black Bahamian women and making the straight, white state, 1890-1940 / Julio Capó Jr.
  • From potlucks to protests : reflections from organizing queer and trans API communities / Sasha Wijeyeratne
  • Central American migrants : LGBTI asylum cases seeking justice and making history / Suyapa Portillo Villeda
  • Resettlement as securitization : war, humanitarianism, and the production of Syrian LGBT refugees / Fadi SalehLuibheid and Chavez
  • Unsafe present, uncertain future : LGBTI asylum in Turkey / Elif Sarı
  • Welcome to Cuban Miami : linking place, race, and undocumented queer youth activism / Rafael Ramirez Solórzano
  • O Canada : HIV not welcome here / Ryan Conrad
  • Bridging immigration justice and prison abolition / Jamila Hammami
  • Facing crisis : queer representations against the backdrop of Athens / Myrto Tsilimpounidi and Anna Carastathis
  • Fantasy subjects : dissonant performances of belonging in queer African refugee resettlement / AB Brown
  • Validation through documentation : integrating activism, research, and scholarship to highlight (validate) trans Latin@ immigrant lives / Jack Cáraves and Bamby Salcedo
  • Shameless interruptions : finding survival at the edges of trans and queer migrations / Ruben Zecena
  • Monarchs and queers / Yasmin Nair
  • The price of survival : family separation, coercion, and help / José Guadalupe Herrera Soto
  • The rhetoric of family in the U.S. immigration movement : a queer migration analysis of the 2014 Central American child migrant "crisis" / Karma R. Chávez and Hana MasriLuibheid and Chavez
  • Imperialism, settler colonialism, and indigeneity : a queer migration roundtable / Leece Lee-Oliver, Monisha Das Gupta, Katherine Fobear, and Edward Ou Jin Lee.