Queer migrations : sexuality, U.S. citizenship, and border crossings / / Eithne Luibheid and Lionel Cantu, Jr., editors

• Pubblicazione: Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, c2005
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: xlvi, 199 p. : ill
• Disciplina: 306.76/6
• Soggetto topico: Gay men - Latin America - Social conditions; Lesbians - Latin America - Social conditions; Hispanic American gays - Migrations; Hispanic American lesbians - Migrations; Asylum, Right of - United States
• Soggetto geografico: Latin America Emigration and immigration Congresses; United States Emigration and immigration Congresses
• Altri autori: LuibheidEithne CantuLionel <d. 2002.>
• Note generali: Includes papers presented at two conferences: "Sexuality, Migration, and the Contested Boundaries of U.S. Citizenship," held at Bowling Green State University, Feb. 28 and Mar. 1, 2002; and "On the Line: Gender, Sexuality, and Human Rights in the Americas," held at the University of California, Santa Cruz, Mar. 8-9, 2002.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Intro -- 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 -- PART II: Queering Racial/Ethnic Communities -- SIX: 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 -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- K -- L -- M -- N -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Queer migrations
• ISBN: 0-8166-9667-5; 0-8166-4466-7
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910821707503321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II