Queer and Trans Migrations: Dynamics of Illegalization, Detention, and Deportation

Dissident Feminisms

by Eithne Luibhéid (Editor), Karma R. Chávez (Editor), A.B. Brown (Contributor)

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.

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

Genres: Queer, LGBT, Nonfiction, Academic, Social Justice, Race

300 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2020

Reviews

[Mayze · Rating 5 out of 5]

I finished Queer and Trans Migrations: Dynamics of Illegalization, Detention, and Deportation (QTM) edited by Eithne Luibheid and Karma R. Chavez. QTM is an important collection of work connecting activists, artists, and academics that approach heteronormative frameworks, settler-colonialist policts, and racialized logics affecting migration, detention, and depotation and its impact on the QTBIPOC-identified migrants.QTM centers illegalization, detention, and deportation in a national and transnational context that examines how migrants and allies negotiate, resitst, refuse, and critique these processes. Each Chapter of QTM is unique, and shares stories and perspectives that may be fresh for some or common for others, but either way this work is important in the studies of gender and sexuality, critical race and ethnic theories, borders and migrations, and decolonial studies. 

[VEBAMAHu · Rating 5 out of 5]

this is a really good book this book open my eyes about my past and read this book makes me a better person to this world, this book is very interesting because talk about a really good topics is a good book.

[Virginia · Rating 5 out of 5]

Appreciate the mix of critical approaches and perspectives in this book. Especially the essays on non-U.S. subjects.

[nat · Rating 2 out of 5]

SO DENSE.