Queer and Trans Migrations

Eithne LuibhÉid 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. ChÁvez 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.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroductionKarma R. ChÁvez and Eithne LuibhÉidPart I: Contextualizing1. “Treated Neither with Respect nor with Dignity”: Contextualizing Queer and Trans Migrant ‘Illegalization,’ Detention and DeportationEithne LuibhÉid2. “Prevent Miami from Becoming a Refugium Peccatorum”: Policing Black Bahamian Women and Making the Straight, White State, 1890-1940Julio CapÓ, Jr.3. From Potlucks to Protests: Reflections from Organizing Queer and Trans API CommunitiesSasha WijeyeratnePart II: Negotiating Systems4. Central American Migrants: LGBTI Asylum Cases Seeking Justice and Making HistorySuyapa Portillo Villeda5. Resettlement as Securitization: War, Humanitarianism, and the Production of Syrian LGBT RefugeesFadi Saleh6. Unsafe Present, Uncertain Future: LGBTI Asylum in TurkeyElif7. Welcome to Miami: Linking Place, Race and UndocuQueer Youth ActivismRafael Ramirez SolÓrzano8. O Canada: HIV Not Welcome HereRyan ConradPart III: Resisting/Refusing9. Bridging Immigration Justice and Prison AbolitionJamila Hammami10. Withdrawn11. Facing Crisis: Queer Representations against the Backdrop of AthensMyrto Tsilimpounidi and Anna Carastathis12. Fantasy Subjects: Dissonant Performances of Belonging in Queer African Refugee ResettlementAndrew J. Brown13. Validation Through Documentation: Integrating Activism, Research & Scholarship to Highlight (Validate) Trans Latin@ Immigrant LivesJack CÁraves and Bamby Salcedo14. Shameless Interruptions: Finding Survival at the Edges of Trans and Queer MigrationsRuben ZecenaPart IV: Critiquing15. Monarchs and QueersYasmin Nair16. The Price of Survival: Family Separation, Coercion, and HelpJosÉ Guadalupe Herrera Soto17. 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 Masri18. Imperialism, Settler Colonialism, and Indigeneity: A Queer Migration RoundtableLeece Lee-Oliver, Monisha Das Gupta, Katherine Fobear, and Edward Ou Jin LeeContributorsIndexArtist Statements

"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 Globe