Abolitionist Intimacies: Queer and Trans Migrants Against the Deportation State
In Abolitionist Intimacies, Eithne Luibhéid examines writings by and about queer- and trans-identified migrants and allies who contest pervasive US immigration practices and work toward a future without detention, deportation, and border controls. Luibhéid shows how these migrants and activists confront such controls by mobilizing intimacies—forging close connections in order to survive in the present. From forms of kinship beyond the heterosexual nuclear family to networks of solidarity, intimacies allow queer and trans migrants and allies to challenge the infrastructures that support the deportation state: proposed pathways to citizenship for undocumented migrants; marriage as a means for legalization; traffic interactions as a pipeline to deportation; and queer and trans migrant detention. In the process, activists and theorists have advanced new visions and configurations of possible intimacies that not only challenge deportation but also rework what immigration control and citizenship could mean. By focusing on these abolitionist efforts as well as the publicly available records on queer and trans deportees, Luibhéid highlights the new understandings that emerge when the experiences of queer and trans people are centered.
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Abolitionist Intimacies: Queer and Trans Migrants Against the Deportation State
In Abolitionist Intimacies, Eithne Luibhéid examines writings by and about queer- and trans-identified migrants and allies who contest pervasive US immigration practices and work toward a future without detention, deportation, and border controls. Luibhéid shows how these migrants and activists confront such controls by mobilizing intimacies—forging close connections in order to survive in the present. From forms of kinship beyond the heterosexual nuclear family to networks of solidarity, intimacies allow queer and trans migrants and allies to challenge the infrastructures that support the deportation state: proposed pathways to citizenship for undocumented migrants; marriage as a means for legalization; traffic interactions as a pipeline to deportation; and queer and trans migrant detention. In the process, activists and theorists have advanced new visions and configurations of possible intimacies that not only challenge deportation but also rework what immigration control and citizenship could mean. By focusing on these abolitionist efforts as well as the publicly available records on queer and trans deportees, Luibhéid highlights the new understandings that emerge when the experiences of queer and trans people are centered.
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Abolitionist Intimacies: Queer and Trans Migrants Against the Deportation State

Abolitionist Intimacies: Queer and Trans Migrants Against the Deportation State

by Eithne Luibhïid
Abolitionist Intimacies: Queer and Trans Migrants Against the Deportation State
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Abolitionist Intimacies: Queer and Trans Migrants Against the Deportation State

Abolitionist Intimacies: Queer and Trans Migrants Against the Deportation State

by Eithne Luibhïid

Overview

In Abolitionist Intimacies, Eithne Luibhéid examines writings by and about queer- and trans-identified migrants and allies who contest pervasive US immigration practices and work toward a future without detention, deportation, and border controls. Luibhéid shows how these migrants and activists confront such controls by mobilizing intimacies—forging close connections in order to survive in the present. From forms of kinship beyond the heterosexual nuclear family to networks of solidarity, intimacies allow queer and trans migrants and allies to challenge the infrastructures that support the deportation state: proposed pathways to citizenship for undocumented migrants; marriage as a means for legalization; traffic interactions as a pipeline to deportation; and queer and trans migrant detention. In the process, activists and theorists have advanced new visions and configurations of possible intimacies that not only challenge deportation but also rework what immigration control and citizenship could mean. By focusing on these abolitionist efforts as well as the publicly available records on queer and trans deportees, Luibhéid highlights the new understandings that emerge when the experiences of queer and trans people are centered.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781478031239
Publisher: Duke University Press
Publication date: 05/23/2025
Pages: 256
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.57(d)

About the Author

Eithne Luibhéid is Professor of Gender and Women’s Studies at the University of Arizona and author of Pregnant on Arrival: Making the Illegal Immigrant and Entry Denied: Controlling Sexuality at the Border.

Table of Contents

A Note on Terminology  vii
Acknowledgments  xiii
Introduction. Against the Deportation State  1
1. Pathways: Coproducing Citizenship and Deportation  33
2. Love, Marriage, and Deportation  55
3. Driving While Undocumented: Circulating Fear and Fearlessness  79
4. Cities as Chokepoints and Resistance  101
Conclusion. “At the Edge of the Possible”  123
Notes  135
Bibliography  191
Index  225
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