Queer Limitrophic Dwelling
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3655417 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Miguel Alejandro Avalos (0000-0001-9395-2032, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 30 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 447-463 |
| Publication date | 2024-10-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | GLQ A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1064-2684 • E-ISSN: 1527-9375 |
| Publisher | Duke University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1215/10642684-11331098 |
| OpenAlex | W4403629592 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 25 |
Based on twenty-one months of ethnography and interviews with transborder commuters in the San Diego-Tijuana border region, this article develops the notion of "queer limitrophic dwelling." Building on queer, feminist, and transnational scholarship on home and dwelling, the article demonstrates how transborder commuters negotiate white Euro-American renditions of home and domesticity that emphasize privacy and fixity as the "proper" ideal vis-à-vis the home. It argues that transborder commuters enact several life-making or queer tactics - practices not necessarily enacted by LGBTQ+ subjects - that spatially decentralize their homes in Tijuana by harnessing transborder kinships and by making queer use of spaces and objects at the San Ysidro port of entry and across San Diego. In doing so, transborder commuters' domestic labor practices produce ephemeral mobile dwellings when needed, allowing them to navigate multiple temporalities and survive normalized conditions of displacement occasioned by US land ports of entry and racial capitalism. Importantly, queer limitrophic dwelling highlights the US-Mexico borderland's capabilities to nourish and maintain life while also being a product of US settler colonialism engendered through historic and ongoing border violence and exclusion
Queer · Sociology · Art, Politics, and Modernism · Feminism, Gender, and Sexuality Studies · Gender Studies · Walter Benjamin Studies Compilation
Home
Intersecting Voices
(Re)framing the emerging mobility regime at the U.S.-Mexico borderlands
This Bridge We Call Home
Unruly Visions
Mobile dwelling
Latinos as the “Living Dead”
Stay the fuck at home!”
Coming home’
Queer space making across greater Los Angeles
Diasporic dwelling
A Queer Sociology
Disruptive situations
When the exception becomes the rule
The Space between Us
Messy Mismeasures
The "Stuff" of Archives
Orientations
Border regimes and temporal sequestration
Manifest Domesticity
Necropolitics
| Citations per year | 1 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2025 - 2025 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |