Queer Migrations: Sexuality, U.S. Citizenship, and Border Crossings

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Author: Eithne Luibheid

ISBN-10: 0816644667

ISBN-13: 9780816644667

Category: Human Rights

Emmigration from Latin America and Asia has influenced every aspect of social, political, economic, and cultural life in the United States over the last quarter century. Within the vast scholarship on this wave of immigration, however, little attention has been paid to queer immigrants of color. Focusing particularly on migration from Mexico, Cuba, El Salvador, and the Philippines, Queer Migrations brings together scholars of immigration, citizenship, sexuality, race, and ethnicity to provide...

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At the intersection of citizenship, sexuality, and race, a new perspective on the immigrant experience.

Introduction : queering migration and citizenship1Trans/migrant : Christina Madrazo's all-American story32Social and legal barriers : sexual orientation and asylum in the United States303Well-founded fear : political asylum and the boundaries of sexual identity in the U.S.-Mexico borderlands614Sexual aliens and the racialized state : a queer reading of the 1952 U.S. immigration and nationality act755The traffic in my fantasy butch : sex, money, race, and the statue of liberty926Visibility and silence : Mariel and Cuban American gay male experience and representation1257Migrancy, modernity, mobility : quotidian struggles and queer diasporic intimacy1468Claiming queer cultural citizenship : Gay Latino (im)migrant acts in San Francisco161