Queer Migrations

Eithne Luibheid is associate professor of ethnic studies at Bowling Green State University and the author of Entry Denied: Controlling Sexuality at the Border (Minnesota, 2002).Lionel Cantu Jr. (1965-2002) was assistant professor of sociology at the University of California, Santa Cruz.Contributors: Martin F. Manalansan IV, U Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Susana Pena, Bowling Green State U; Erica Rand, Bates College; Timothy Randazzo, UC Berkeley; Horacio N. Roque Ramirez, UC Santa Barbara; Alisa Solomon, Baruch College-CUNY; Siobhan B. Somerville, U Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Alexandra Minna Stern, U Michigan.

• Contents Acknowledgments Introduction: Queering Migration and Citizenship Eithne Luibheid Part I: Disciplining Queer Migrants 1. Trans/Migrant: Christina Madrazo's All-American Story Alisa Solomon 2. Social and Legal Barriers: Sexual Orientation and Asylum in the United States Timothy J. Randazzo 3. Well-Founded Fear: Political Asylum and the Boundaries of Sexual Identity in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands Lionel Cantu Jr. with Eithne Luibheid and Alexandra Minna Stern 4. Sexual Aliens and the Racialized State: A Queer Reading of the 1952 U.S. Immigration and Nationality Act Siobhan B. Somerville 5. The Traffic in My Fantasy Butch: Sex, Money, Race, and the Statue of Liberty Erica Rand Part II: Queering Racial/Ethnic Communities 6. Visibility and Silence: Mariel and Cuban American Gay Male Experience and Representation Susana Pena 7. Migrancy, Modernity, Mobility: Quotidian Struggles and Queer Diasporic Intimacy Martin F. Manalansan IV 8. Claiming Queer Citizenship: Gay Latino (Im)Migrant Acts in San Francisco Horacio N. Roque Ramirez Index