Queer Migrations: Sexuality, U.S. Citizenship, and Border Crossings

Abstract

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. Introduction : queering migration and citizenship / Eithne Luibhéid -- Trans/migrant : Christian Madrazo's all-American story / Alisa Solomon -- Social and legal barriers : sexual orientation and asylum in the United States / Timothy Randazzo -- Well-founded fear : political asylum and the boundaries of sexual identity in the U.S.-Mexico borderlands / Lionel Cantú, Eithne Luibhéid, Alexandra Minna Stern -- Sexual alines and the racialized state : a queer reading of the 1952 U.S. Immigration and Nationality Act / Siobhan Somerville -- The traffic in my fantasy butch : sex, money, race, and the Statue of Liberty / Erica Rand -- Visibility and silence : Mariel and Cuban American gay male experience and representation / Susana Peña -- Migrancy, modernity, mobility : quotidian struggles and queer diasporic intimacy -- Martin Manalansan -- Claiming queer cultural citizenship : gay Latino (im)migrant acts in San Francisco / Horacio Roque Ramírez.