ISBN:
9780816644667
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (246 p.)
Parallel Title:
Print version Queer Migrations : Sexuality, U.S. Citizenship, and Border Crossings
DDC:
306.76/6
Keywords:
Asylum, Right of ; United States ; Congresses
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Gay men ; Latin America ; Social conditions ; Congresses
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Hispanic American gays ; Migrations ; Congresses
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Hispanic American lesbians ; Migrations ; Congresses
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Latin America ; Emigration and immigration ; Congresses
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Lesbians ; Latin America ; Social conditions ; Congresses
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United States ; Emigration and immigration ; Congresses
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
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Konferenzschrift
Abstract:
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 i
Description / Table of Contents:
Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Queering Migration and Citizenship; PART I: Disciplining Queer Migrants; ONE: Trans/Migrant: Christina Madrazo's All-American Story; TWO: Social and Legal Barriers: Sexual Orientation and Asylum in the United States; THREE: Well-Founded Fear: Political Asylum and the Boundaries of Sexual Identity in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands; FOUR: Sexual Aliens and the Racialized State: A Queer Reading of the 1952 U.S. Immigration and Nationality Act; FIVE: The Traffic in My Fantasy Butch: Sex, Money, Race, and the Statue of Liberty
Description / Table of Contents:
PART II: Queering Racial/Ethnic CommunitiesSIX: Visibility and Silence: Mariel and Cuban American Gay Male Experience and Representation; SEVEN: Migrancy, Modernity, Mobility: Quotidian Struggles and Queer Diasporic Intimacy; EIGHT: Claiming Queer Cultural Citizenship: Gay Latino (Im)Migrant Acts in San Francisco; Contributors; Index;
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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