Queer and Trans Migrations

Dynamics of Illegalization, Detention, and Deportation

Bibliographic Data

ID23554209
EditorsEithne Luibhéid, Karma R Chávez (0000-0001-6057-0521)
Year2020
Pages312
Publication date2020-09-15
Open AccessYes
TypeBOOK
VenueQueer and Trans Migrations (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherUniversity of Illinois Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.5622/illinois/9780252043314.001.0001
OpenAlexW4239827218
Open LibraryOL29500504M
ISBN9780252043314
LanguageEN
Citations received38

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 nonnormative gender contributes important knowledge. Some one million LGBTQ-identified migrants live in the United States, and more than one quarter of them are undocumented. Young people at the forefront of advocating for legalization have borrowed the LGBT movement’s tactic of “coming out of the closet” to proclaim themselves “undocumented and unafraid.” Julio Salgado’s artwork sparked a nationwide mobilization of UndocuQueer as an identity, and queer migrant networks have emerged around the nation, working both independently and in coalition with diverse migrant communities. Our collection fills a gap in queer and trans migration scholarship about illegalization, detention, and deportation while deepening the critical dialogue between this scholarship and allied fields including: immigration and racial justice scholarship about legalization, detention, and deportation; anthropological and sociological studies of families divided across borders by immigration law; scholarship linking prison and border abolition; and debates on queer necropolitics. It intentionally engages the fault lines between epistemology and power as a means to reframe understandings of queer and trans migrant illegalization, detention, and deportation.

Criminology · Deportation · Immigration · Legalization · Migration studies · Political science · Queer · Scholarship · Sociology · African Sexualities and LGBTQ+ Issues · Gender Studies · Law · Migration, Refugees, and Integration · Sex work and related issues · Case studies · Detention of persons · emigration and immigration · Government policy · Sexual minority immigrants · Social aspects · Social conditions

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