Queer and Trans Migrations: Dynamics of Illegalization, Detention, and Deportation(Dissident Feminisms)

More than a quarter of a million LGBTQ-identified migrants in the United States lack documentation and constantly risk detention and deportation. LGBTQ migrants around the world endure similarly precarious situations. Eithne LuibhÉid's and Karma R. ChÁvez’s edited collection provides a first-of-its-kind look at LGBTQ migrants and communities. The academics, activists, and artists in the volume center illegalization, detention, and deportation in national and transnational contexts, and examine how migrants and allies negotiate, resist, refuse, and critique these processes. The works contribute to the fields of gender and sexuality studies, critical race and ethnic studies, borders and migration studies, and decolonial studies. Bridging voices and works from inside and outside of the academy, and international in scope, Queer and Trans Migrations illuminates new perspectives in the field of queer and trans migration studies. Contributors: Andrew J. Brown, Julio CapÓ, Jr., Anna Carastathis, Jack CÁraves, Karma R. ChÁvez, Ryan Conrad, Elif, Katherine Fobear, Monisha Das Gupta, Jamila Hammami, Edward Ou Jin Lee, Leece Lee-Oliver, Eithne LuibhÉid, Hana Masri, Yasmin Nair, Bamby Salcedo, Fadi Saleh, Rafael Ramirez SolÓrzano, JosÉ Guadalupe Herrera Soto, Myrto Tsilimpounidi, Suyapa Portillo Villeda, Sasha Wijeyeratne, Ruben Zecena

Table of Contents:
Acknowledgments Introduction Karma R. ChÁvez and Eithne LuibhÉid Part I: Contextualizing 1. “Treated Neither with Respect nor with Dignity”: Contextualizing Queer and Trans Migrant ‘Illegalization,’ Detention and Deportation Eithne LuibhÉid 2. “Prevent Miami from Becoming a Refugium Peccatorum”: Policing Black Bahamian Women and Making the Straight, White State, 1890-1940 Julio CapÓ, Jr. 3. From Potlucks to Protests: Reflections from Organizing Queer and Trans API Communities Sasha Wijeyeratne Part II: Negotiating Systems 4. Central American Migrants: LGBTI Asylum Cases Seeking Justice and Making History Suyapa Portillo Villeda 5. Resettlement as Securitization: War, Humanitarianism, and the Production of Syrian LGBT Refugees Fadi Saleh 6. Unsafe Present, Uncertain Future: LGBTI Asylum in Turkey Elif 7. Welcome to Miami: Linking Place, Race and UndocuQueer Youth Activism Rafael Ramirez SolÓrzano 8. O Canada: HIV Not Welcome Here Ryan Conrad Part III: Resisting/Refusing 9. Bridging Immigration Justice and Prison Abolition Jamila Hammami 10. Withdrawn 11. Facing Crisis: Queer Representations against the Backdrop of Athens Myrto Tsilimpounidi and Anna Carastathis 12. Fantasy Subjects: Dissonant Performances of Belonging in Queer African Refugee Resettlement Andrew J. Brown 13. Validation Through Documentation: Integrating Activism, Research & Scholarship to Highlight (Validate) Trans Latin@ Immigrant Lives Jack CÁraves and Bamby Salcedo 14. Shameless Interruptions: Finding Survival at the Edges of Trans and Queer Migrations Ruben Zecena Part IV: Critiquing 15. Monarchs and Queers Yasmin Nair 16. The Price of Survival: Family Separation, Coercion, and Help JosÉ Guadalupe Herrera Soto 17. The Rhetoric of Family in the US Immigration Movement: A Queer Migration Analysis of the 2014 Central American Child Migrant “Crisis” Karma R. ChÁvez and Hana Masri 18. Imperialism, Settler Colonialism, and Indigeneity: A Queer Migration Roundtable Leece Lee-Oliver, Monisha Das Gupta, Katherine Fobear, and Edward Ou Jin Lee Contributors Index Artist Statements

About the Author :
Eithne LuibhÉid is a professor in the Department of Gender and Women’s Studies at the University of Arizona. She is the author of Pregnant on Arrival: Making the Illegal Immigrant and Entry Denied: Controlling Sexuality at the Border. Karma R. ChÁvez is an associate professor in the Department of Mexican American and Latina/o Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. She is the author of Queer Migration Politics: Activist Rhetoric and Coalitional Possibilities and Palestine on the Air.

Review :
"This book features unique historical and contemporary perspectives within the contexts of migration in various parts of the world. . . . Readers of the Quarterly Journal of Speech will glean a great deal of insight from the author's exploration of queer and trans migration studies, and how such studies connect with communication practice, through activists, organizers, artists, and scholars." --Quarterly Journal of Speech "Recommended." --Choice "An extraordinarily important volume bringing together activists, artists, and academics, Queer and Trans Migrations models the wide range of approaches that can help us understand and challenge the heteronormative frameworks, settler-colonialist politics, and racialized logics affecting migration, detention, and deportation."--Erica Rand, author of The Ellis Island Snow Globe