Luibhéid and Cantú (Eds.), ‘Queer Migrations’, 2005

Eithne Luibhéid and Lionel Cantú (Eds.), Queer Migrations: Sexuality, U.S. Citizenship and Border Crossings, Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2005

Abstract

At the intersection of citizenship, sexuality, and race, a new perspective on the immigrant experience – Queer Migrations brings together scholars to provide analyses of the norms, institutions, and discourses that affect queer immigrants of color, also providing ethnographic studies of how these newcomers have transformed established immigrant communities in Miami, San Francisco, and New York.

Table of contents

Introduction: Queering Migration and Citizenship Eithne Luibheid

PART I Disciplining Queer Migrants

ONE Trans/Migrant: Christina Madrazo’s All-American Story Alisa Solomon
TWO Social and Legal Barriers: Sexual Orientation and Asylum in the United States Timothy J. Randazzo
THREE Well-Founded Fear: Political Asylum and the Boundaries of Sexual Identity in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands Lionel Cantu Jr. with Eithne Luibheid and Alexandra Minna Stern
FOUR Sexual Aliens and the Racialized State: A Queer Reading of the 1952 U.S. Immigration and Nationality Act Siobhan B. Somerville
FIVE The Traffic in My Fantasy Butch: Sex, Money, Race, and the Statue of Liberty 92 Erica Rand

PART II Queering Racial/Ethnic Communities

SIX Visibility and Silence: Mariel and Cuban American Gay Male Experience and Representation Susana Pena
SEVEN Migrancy, Modernity, Mobility: Quotidian Struggles and Queer Diasporic Intimacy 146 Martin F. Manalansan IV
EIGHT Claiming Queer Cultural Citizenship: Gay Latino (Im)Migrant Acts in San Francisco Horatio N. Roque Ramirez