Epps, Valens and González (eds.), ‘Passing Lines’, 2005

Brad Epps, Keja Valens and Bill Johnson González (eds.), Passing Lines: Sexuality and Immigration, Harvard University Press, 2005

Book abstract

Passing Lines seeks to stimulate dialogue on the role of sexuality and sexual orientation in immigration to the U.S. from Latin America and the Caribbean. The book looks at the complexities, inconsistencies and paradoxes of immigration from the point of view of both academics and practitioners in the field. Passing Lines takes a close look at the debates that surround eyewitness testimony, expertise and advocacy regarding immigration and sexuality, bringing together work by scholars, activists and others from both sides of the border.

Table of contents

I. Introduction
II. Trends in Immigration
1. Everything You Ever Wanted to Know about Immigration but Were Afraid to Ask [Marcelo Suárez-Orozco]
2. Heteronormativity, Responsibility, and Neo-liberal Governance in U.S. Immigration Control [Eithne Luibhéid]
III. Legal Matters
3. Refugee Law, Gender, and the Human Rights Paradigm [Deborah Anker]
4. Gay Enough: Some Tensions in Seeking the Grant of Asylum and Protecting Global Sexual Diversity [Alice M. Miller]
5. Intimate Conduct, Public Practice, and the Bounds of Citizenship: In the Wake of Lawrence v. Texas [Brad Epps]
6. Gay Rights Are Human Rights: Gay Asylum Seekers in Canada [Bill Fairbairn]
IV. Symbolic and Material Economies
7. Tolerance and Intolerance in Sexual Cultures in Latin America [Roger N. Lancaster]
8. Cultures of the Puerto Rican Queer Diaspora [Lawrence La Fountain-Stokes]
9. Politicizing Abjection: Towards the Articulation of a Latino AIDS Queer Identity [Alberto Sandoval-Sánchez]
10. HIV and the Transnational Movement of People, Money, and Microbes [Paul Farmer and Nicole Gastineau]
V. Women Immigrants, Women Activists
11. Unwilling or Unable: Asylum and Non-State Agents of Persecution [Matthew E. Price]
12. Witnessing Memory and Surviving Domestic Violence: The Case of Rodi Alvarado Peña [Angélica Cházaro]
13. “Yo no estoy perdida”: Immigrant Women (Re)locating Citizenship [Kathleen M. Coll]
14. Immigration, Self-Exile, and Sexual Dissidence [Norma Mogrovego]
15. An Oral History of Brazilian Women Immigrants in the Boston Area [Heloisa Maria Galvão]