Queer Migration Politics

Activist Rhetoric and Coalitional Possibilities

Datos Bibliográficos

ID20012221
AutoresKarma R Chávez (0000-0001-6057-0521, autor de correspondencia), Karma Chávez
Año2016
Páginas232
Fecha de publicación2016-04-15
Open AccessNo
TipoBOOK
RevistaQueer Migration Politics (SOURCE_BOOK)
EditorialUniversity of Illinois Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.5406/illinois/9780252038105.001.0001
OpenAlexW4238690347
Open LibraryOL28512298M
ISBN9780252038105
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas115

The battles for LGBTQ rights and immigrant rights have captured significant attention in the U.S. public sphere throughout the twenty-first century. Both movements, which are largely understood to be separate, have advocated a politics of inclusion in and assimilation to mainstream national values. Delineating an alternative approach to activism at the intersection of queer rights, immigration rights, and social justice, this book examines a series of “coalitional moments” in which contemporary activists discover and respond to the predominant rhetoric, imagery, and ideologies that signal a sense of national identity. This book analyzes how activists use coalition to articulate the shared concerns of queer politics and migration politics, as activists imagine their ability to belong in various communities and spaces, their relationships to state and regional politics, and their relationships to other people whose lives might be very different from their own. Advocating a politics of the present and drawing from women of color and queer of color theory, this book contends that coalition enables a vital understanding of how queerness and immigration, citizenship and belonging, and inclusion and exclusion are linked

Citizenship · Identity politics · Ideology · Immigration · Inclusion (mineral) · Mainstream · Media studies · Political science · Politics · Public sphere · Queer · Rhetoric · Social movement · Sociology · Gender Studies · Latin American and Latino Studies · Law · Race, History, and American Society · Civil rights · emigration and immigration · Gay rights · Government policy · Immigrants · politics and government · Social aspects · Social conditions · united states