Eithne Luibhéid
Biographic Data
| ID | 97334 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Eithne Luibhéid |
| GIVEN NAMES | Eithne |
| FAMILY NAME | Luibhéid |
| SIGNATURE | LUIBHÉID E |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Arizona |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 34 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 464 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 31 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 3 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 9 |
Abolitionist Intimacies: Queer and Trans Migrants against the Deportation State
Sexuality, Migration, and the Shifting Line between Legal and Illegal Status
This chapter analyzes the status distinctions as outcomes of contingent, changing relations of power, including sexuality as it intersects with hierarchies of race, gender, class, and geopolitics. It historicizes how and why unauthorized migration occurs, in relation to larger structural factors. The chapter explores how same-sex migrant partners remain shut out from accessing legal status on the basis of their relationship with a US citizen or r…
Sexual citizenship, pride parades, and queer migrant Im/Mobilities
The paper argues that Trans Queer Pueblo (TQP)’s protest at the 2017 Pride Parade in Phoenix, AZ, and changes in police participation made by the Pride parade committee in 2020, provide a window for exploring how constructions of sexual citizenship reinforce neo-colonial logics that reproduce and naturalize differential LGBTQ mobilities. Framing citizenship as entailing both belonging (“normative citizenship”) and legal status (“legal citizenship…
National citizenship, migrant deportation and gender/sexual logics of home
This article highlights deportation when imagining the futures of citizenship studies and nation-based citizenship. I center Beloved Home, one of the pillars of the Trans Agenda for Liberation, in order to discuss how nation-state citizenship and migrant deportation regimes converge to make home impossible for many living in the United States. Beloved Home especially foregrounds genders and sexualities, in their interactions with (settler) coloni…
Lives That Resist Telling: Migrant and Refugee Lesbians
Queer and Trans Migrations: Dynamics of Illegalization, Detention, and Deportation
This volume brings together academics, activists, and artists to explore how LGBTQ migrants and their allies, friends, families, and communities (including citizens and noncitizens) experience and resist dynamics of illegalization, detention, and deportation at local, national, and transnational scales. No book-length study of illegalization, detention, and deportation has centered LGBTQ migrants or addressed how centering sexuality and nonnormat…
Queer and Trans Migrations: Dynamics of Illegalization, Detention, and Deportation
Migrant and refugee lesbians: Lives that resist the telling
This essay introduces the special issue on "Migrant and Refugee Lesbians: Lives that Resist the Telling." It discusses the stakes involved in silence about migrant lesbian lives that permeates scholarship; reviews published works that address migrant lesbians; and highlights theoretical traditions that promise to enable further scholarship. The essay then critically explores multiple meanings associated with the terms "lesbian" and "migrant," and…
Same-sex marriage and the pinkwashing of state migration controls
In May 2015, the Republic of Ireland became the first country to affirm same-sex marriage through the popular vote. This paper explores how the same-sex marriage referendum enabled the Irish state to pinkwash its migration regimes, thereby naturalizing harsh policies that reproduce gendered, sexual, racial, economic, and geopolitical inequalities. Following scholars' suggestions that state migration regimes should be analyzed comprehensively rath…
Heteronormativity: A Bridge Between Queer Migration and Critical Trafficking Studies
In February 2017, Secretary of Homeland Security John Kelly announced that immigration officials would criminally charge migrant parents or guardians with smuggling or trafficking if they paid for
Intimate attachments and migrant deportability: Lessons From Undocumented Mothers Seeking Benefits for Citizen Children
Nicholas De Genova (2002) suggests that undocumented status is primarily experienced through consciousness of being deportable. Interviews with undocumented Mexican migrant women living in Arizona show that they experience deportability not just in workplaces, which have been the focus of much scholarship, but also when seeking healthcare benefits for their U.S. citizen children. This article therefore expands the scholarship on deportability by …
A global history of sexuality: The modern era
Afterword: Troubling identities and identifications
This article argues that the essays in the special issue on ‘Queer Migration, Asylum and Displacement’ collectively problematize how official identity categories trouble, and are troubled by, queer and asylum-seeking migrants. It discusses the future research and activist possibilities that these essays open up
Pregnant on Arrival: Making the Illegal Immigrant
" "State alert as pregnant asylum seekers aim for Ireland." "Country Being Held Hostage by Con Men, Spongers, and Those Taking Advantage of the Maternity Residency Policy." From 1997 to 2004, headlines such as these dominated Ireland's mainstream media as pregnant immigrants were recast as "illegals" entering the country to gain legal residency through childbirth. As immigration soared, Irish media and politicians began to equate this phenomenon …
Nationalist Heterosexuality, Migrant (Il)legality, and Irish Citizenship Law: Queering the Connections
“Illegal” status is commonly conceived as stemming from migrants' undesirable characters, yet recent scholarship has shown that “legal” and “illegal” statuses are created through political processes and relations of power that require critical scrutiny. This essay expands the scholarship by showing that sexual norms critically shape where and how states draw distinctions between legal and illegal status. In Ireland at the turn of the millennium, …
Birthing A Nation: Race, Ethnicity, And Childbearing
Conclusion: Sexuality, Immigration, And Resistance
Looking Like A Lesbian: Sexual Monitoring At The U.S.–Mexico Border
Rape, Asylum, And The U.S. Border Patrol
Preliminary Material
Entry Denied: A History Of U.S. Immigration Control
Index
Appendix: Sexuality Considerations In The Refugee/Asylum System
A Blueprint For Exclusion: The Page Law, Prostitution, And Discrimination Against Chinese Women
Entry Denied: Controlling Sexuality At The Border
Queer/Migration
Entry Denied: Controlling Sexuality At The Border
Sexuality, Migration, and the Shifting Line Between Legal and Illegal Status
Focusing on the U.S. campaign to secure recognition of same-sex couple relationships within immigration law, this article brings the scholarship about the social construction of undocumented immigration into critical conversation with queer studies. Challenging neoliberal representations of legal or illegal immigrant status as a sign of individual character, rather than as an outcome of multiple relations of power, the article highlights the cent…
Queer Migrations: Sexuality, U.S. Citizenship, and Border Crossings
Heteronormativity and Immigration Scholarship: A Call for Change
Research Article| April 01 2004 Heteronormativity and Immigration Scholarship: A Call for Change Eithne Luibhéid Eithne Luibhéid Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google GLQ (2004) 10 (2): 227–235. https://doi.org/10.1215/10642684-10-2-227 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Eithne Luibhéid; Heteronormativity and Immigration Scholarship: A Call for Change. GLQ 1 April 2004; 10 (2): 227–235. d…
Childbearing against the state? Asylum seeker women in the Irish republic
Sexual Regimes and Migration Controls: Reproducing the Irish Nation-State in Transnational Contexts
This article examines the ways that state sexual regimes intersect with migration controls to re-make exclusionary nation-states and geopolitical hierarchies among women. I focus on two important Irish Supreme Court rulings: the X case (1992) and the O case (2002), respectively. X was a raped, pregnant, 14-year-old who sought an abortion in Britain. While the Supreme Court ultimately permitted her to procure an abortion, women's right to travel a…
Intimate attachments and migrant deportability: Lessons From Undocumented Mothers Seeking Benefits for Citizen Children
Nicholas De Genova (2002) suggests that undocumented status is primarily experienced through consciousness of being deportable. Interviews with undocumented Mexican migrant women living in Arizona show that they experience deportability not just in workplaces, which have been the focus of much scholarship, but also when seeking healthcare benefits for their U.S. citizen children. This article therefore expands the scholarship on deportability by …
Irish Women and Irish Migration
Introduction - Irish women and Irish migration women Wild Geese, 1585-1625 - Irish women and migration to European armies in the late 16th and early 17th centuries For love and liberty - Irish women, migration and domesticity in Ireland and America, 1815-1920 superfluous and unwanted deadweight - the emigration of 19th-century Irish pauper women geographies of migration and religion - Irish women in mid-19th-century Liverpool Irish women workers …
Migrant and refugee lesbians: Lives that resist the telling
This essay introduces the special issue on "Migrant and Refugee Lesbians: Lives that Resist the Telling." It discusses the stakes involved in silence about migrant lesbian lives that permeates scholarship; reviews published works that address migrant lesbians; and highlights theoretical traditions that promise to enable further scholarship. The essay then critically explores multiple meanings associated with the terms "lesbian" and "migrant," and…
Same-sex marriage and the pinkwashing of state migration controls
In May 2015, the Republic of Ireland became the first country to affirm same-sex marriage through the popular vote. This paper explores how the same-sex marriage referendum enabled the Irish state to pinkwash its migration regimes, thereby naturalizing harsh policies that reproduce gendered, sexual, racial, economic, and geopolitical inequalities. Following scholars' suggestions that state migration regimes should be analyzed comprehensively rath…
Heteronormativity: A Bridge Between Queer Migration and Critical Trafficking Studies
In February 2017, Secretary of Homeland Security John Kelly announced that immigration officials would criminally charge migrant parents or guardians with smuggling or trafficking if they paid for
The 1965 Immigration and Nationality Act: An “End” to Exclusion
The 1965 Immigration and Nationality Act: An “End” to Exclusion
Irish Women and Irish Migration
Introduction - Irish women and Irish migration women Wild Geese, 1585-1625 - Irish women and migration to European armies in the late 16th and early 17th centuries For love and liberty - Irish women, migration and domesticity in Ireland and America, 1815-1920 superfluous and unwanted deadweight - the emigration of 19th-century Irish pauper women geographies of migration and religion - Irish women in mid-19th-century Liverpool Irish women workers …
Childbearing against the state? Asylum seeker women in the Irish republic
Heteronormativity and Immigration Scholarship: A Call for Change
Research Article| April 01 2004 Heteronormativity and Immigration Scholarship: A Call for Change Eithne Luibhéid Eithne Luibhéid Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google GLQ (2004) 10 (2): 227–235. https://doi.org/10.1215/10642684-10-2-227 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Eithne Luibhéid; Heteronormativity and Immigration Scholarship: A Call for Change. GLQ 1 April 2004; 10 (2): 227–235. d…
Queer Migrations: Sexuality, U.S. Citizenship, and Border Crossings
Sexual Regimes and Migration Controls: Reproducing the Irish Nation-State in Transnational Contexts
This article examines the ways that state sexual regimes intersect with migration controls to re-make exclusionary nation-states and geopolitical hierarchies among women. I focus on two important Irish Supreme Court rulings: the X case (1992) and the O case (2002), respectively. X was a raped, pregnant, 14-year-old who sought an abortion in Britain. While the Supreme Court ultimately permitted her to procure an abortion, women's right to travel a…
Sexuality, Migration, and the Shifting Line Between Legal and Illegal Status
Focusing on the U.S. campaign to secure recognition of same-sex couple relationships within immigration law, this article brings the scholarship about the social construction of undocumented immigration into critical conversation with queer studies. Challenging neoliberal representations of legal or illegal immigrant status as a sign of individual character, rather than as an outcome of multiple relations of power, the article highlights the cent…
Queer/Migration
Entries
Birthing A Nation: Race, Ethnicity, And Childbearing
Conclusion: Sexuality, Immigration, And Resistance
Looking Like A Lesbian: Sexual Monitoring At The U.S.–Mexico Border
Rape, Asylum, And The U.S. Border Patrol
Preliminary Material
Entry Denied: A History Of U.S. Immigration Control
Index
Appendix: Sexuality Considerations In The Refugee/Asylum System
A Blueprint For Exclusion: The Page Law, Prostitution, And Discrimination Against Chinese Women
Entry Denied: Controlling Sexuality At The Border
Nationalist Heterosexuality, Migrant (Il)legality, and Irish Citizenship Law: Queering the Connections
“Illegal” status is commonly conceived as stemming from migrants' undesirable characters, yet recent scholarship has shown that “legal” and “illegal” statuses are created through political processes and relations of power that require critical scrutiny. This essay expands the scholarship by showing that sexual norms critically shape where and how states draw distinctions between legal and illegal status. In Ireland at the turn of the millennium, …
Pregnant on Arrival: Making the Illegal Immigrant
" "State alert as pregnant asylum seekers aim for Ireland." "Country Being Held Hostage by Con Men, Spongers, and Those Taking Advantage of the Maternity Residency Policy." From 1997 to 2004, headlines such as these dominated Ireland's mainstream media as pregnant immigrants were recast as "illegals" entering the country to gain legal residency through childbirth. As immigration soared, Irish media and politicians began to equate this phenomenon …
A global history of sexuality: The modern era
Afterword: Troubling identities and identifications
This article argues that the essays in the special issue on ‘Queer Migration, Asylum and Displacement’ collectively problematize how official identity categories trouble, and are troubled by, queer and asylum-seeking migrants. It discusses the future research and activist possibilities that these essays open up
Same-sex marriage and the pinkwashing of state migration controls
In May 2015, the Republic of Ireland became the first country to affirm same-sex marriage through the popular vote. This paper explores how the same-sex marriage referendum enabled the Irish state to pinkwash its migration regimes, thereby naturalizing harsh policies that reproduce gendered, sexual, racial, economic, and geopolitical inequalities. Following scholars' suggestions that state migration regimes should be analyzed comprehensively rath…
Heteronormativity: A Bridge Between Queer Migration and Critical Trafficking Studies
In February 2017, Secretary of Homeland Security John Kelly announced that immigration officials would criminally charge migrant parents or guardians with smuggling or trafficking if they paid for
Sociology (20 works) · Political science (19 works) · Law (18 works) · Gender Studies (17 works) · Migration, Refugees, and Integration (16 works) · emigration and immigration (11 works) · Queer (11 works) · Immigration (10 works) · Politics (10 works) · Gender Studies (9 works)