Queer Migrations

by Luibheid, Eithne

• ISBN13: 9780816644667
• ISBN10: 0816644667
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-01-06
• Publisher: Univ of Minnesota Pr

Summary

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 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.

Author Biography

Eithne Luibheid is associate professor of ethnic studies at Bowling Green State University and the author of Entry Denied:  Controlling Sexuality at the Border (Minnesota, 2002).

Lionel Cantu Jr. (1965-2002) was assistant professor of sociology at the University of California, Santa Cruz.

Contributors:  Martin F. Manalansan IV, U Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Susana Pena, Bowling Green State U; Erica Rand, Bates College; Timothy Randazzo, UC Berkeley; Horacio N. Roque Ramirez, UC Santa Barbara; Alisa Solomon, Baruch College-CUNY; Siobhan B. Somerville, U Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Alexandra Minna Stern, U Michigan.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	vii
Introduction: Queering Migration and Citizenship	ix
Eithne Luibhéid
PART I Disciplining Queer Migrants
ONE Trans/Migrant: Christina Madrazo's All-American Story	3	(27)
Alisa Solomon
TWO Social and Legal Barriers: Sexual Orientation and Asylum in the United States	30	(31)
Timothy J. Randazzo
THREE Well-Founded Fear: Political Asylum and the Boundaries of Sexual Identity in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands	61	(14)
Lionel Cantú Jr. with Eithne Luibhéid and Alexandra Minna Stern
FOUR Sexual Aliens and the Racialized State: A Queer Reading of the 1952 U.S. Immigration and Nationality Act	75	(17)
Siobhan B. Somerville
FIVE The Traffic in My Fantasy Butch: Sex, Money, Race, and the Statue of Liberty	92	(33)
Erica Rand
PART II Queering Racial/Ethnic Communities
SIX Visibility and Silence: Mariel and Cuban American Gay Male Experience and Representation	125	(21)
Susana Peña
SEVEN Migrancy, Modernity, Mobility: Quotidian Struggles and Queer Diasporic Intimacy	146	(15)
Martin F. Manalansan IV
EIGHT Claiming Queer Cultural Citizenship: Gay Latino (Im)Migrant Acts in San Francisco	161	(28)
Horacio N. Roque Ramirez
Contributors	189	(4)
Index	193