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abolition
affective economy
Author_Eithne Luibheid
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citizenship
deportation
detained transgender migrants
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intimacies
LGBT migrants
queer intimacies
queer migrant
queer migrants
sanctuary city
trans intimacies
trans migrants
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undocumented
Product details
- ISBN 9781478031239
- Weight: 445g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 23 May 2025
- Publisher: Duke University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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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.
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.
