Queer Migrations

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.

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.

Contents Acknowledgments Introduction: Queering Migration and Citizenship Eithne Luibheid Part I: Disciplining Queer Migrants 1. Trans/Migrant: Christina Madrazo's All-American Story Alisa Solomon 2. Social and Legal Barriers: Sexual Orientation and Asylum in the United States Timothy J. Randazzo 3. 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 4. Sexual Aliens and the Racialized State: A Queer Reading of the 1952 U.S. Immigration and Nationality Act Siobhan B. Somerville 5. The Traffic in My Fantasy Butch: Sex, Money, Race, and the Statue of Liberty Erica Rand Part II: Queering Racial/Ethnic Communities 6. Visibility and Silence: Mariel and Cuban American Gay Male Experience and Representation Susana Pena 7. Migrancy, Modernity, Mobility: Quotidian Struggles and Queer Diasporic Intimacy Martin F. Manalansan IV 8. Claiming Queer Citizenship: Gay Latino (Im)Migrant Acts in San Francisco Horacio N. Roque Ramirez Index