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Abolitionist Intimacies
Queer and Trans Migrants against the Deportation State
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English
Published/Copyright:
2025
About this book
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.
Author / Editor information
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.
Reviews
“Building on her record as a foremost scholar of immigration, Eithne Luibhéid offers powerful and innovative heuristics for thinking about how queer and trans migrants and their allies leverage their intimacies to resist deportation infrastructures and build abolitionist futures. Thoroughly researched, masterfully argued, and elegantly written, Abolitionist Intimacies will shift how you think about immigration regimes, but more importantly, it will change what you believe is possible for changing them.”
-- Karma R. Chavez, author of The Borders of AIDS: Race, Quarantine, and Resistance
-- Karma R. Chavez, author of The Borders of AIDS: Race, Quarantine, and Resistance
“Abolitionist Intimacies offers us an extraordinarily timely analysis of immigration, citizenship, and deportation practices that center queer and trans migrants’ voices across academic scholarship, public advocacy, activism, and art. Eithne Luibhéid’s clear writing and her skill at laying out complicated histories and political frameworks make this book extremely accessible and useful to a wide range of readers. It is greatly needed right now.”
-- Toby Beauchamp, author of Going Stealth: Transgender Politics and U.S. Surveillance Practices
-- Toby Beauchamp, author of Going Stealth: Transgender Politics and U.S. Surveillance Practices
"For migrants, researchers, students, activists, allies and practitioners, [Abolitionist Intimacies] offers a compelling and humane account of the struggles and solidarities that shape queer and trans migrant life today."
-- Jessica Walmsley Ethnic and Racial Studies
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Frontmatter
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Contents
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A Note on Terminology
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Acknowledgments
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Introduction Against the Deportation State
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1 Pathways Coproducing Citizenship and Deportation
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2 Love, Marriage, and Deportation
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3 Driving While Undocumented Circulating Fear and Fearlessness
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4 Cities as Chokepoints and Resistance
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Conclusion “At the Edge of the Possible”
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Notes
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Bibliography
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Index
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eBook published on:
May 2, 2025
eBook ISBN:
9781478060260
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eBook ISBN:
9781478060260
Keywords for this book
queer migrants; trans migrants; abolition; deportation; intimacies; undocumented; LGBT migrants; queer migrant; citizenship; affective economy; UndocuBus; sanctuary city; detained transgender migrants; queer intimacies; trans intimacies
Audience(s) for this book
For an expert adult audience, including professional development and academic research
