Contributors: Andrew J. Brown, Julio Cap+¦, Jr., Anna Carastathis, Jack C+íraves, Karma R. Ch+ívez, Ryan Conrad, Elif, Katherine Fobear, Monisha Das Gupta, Jamila Hammami, Edward Ou Jin Lee, Leece Lee-Oliver, Rachel A. Lewis, Eithne Luibh+¬id, Hana Masri, Yasmin Nair, Bamby Salcedo, Fadi Saleh, Rafael Ramirez Sol+¦rzano, Jos+¬ Guadalupe Herrera Soto, Myrto Tsilimpounidi, Suyapa Portillo Villeda, Sasha Wijeyeratne, Ruben Zecena
Acknowledgments Introduction Karma R. Chávez and Eithne Luibhéid Part I: Contextualizing 1. Treated Neither with Respect nor with Dignitya: Contextualizing Queer and Trans Migrant 'Illegalization,' Detention and Deportation Eithne Luibhéid 2. Prevent Miami from Becoming a Refugium Peccatoruma: Policing Black Bahamian Women and Making the Straight, White State, 1890-1940 Julio Capó, Jr. 3. From Potlucks to Protests: Reflections from Organizing Queer and Trans API Communities Sasha Wijeyeratne Part II: Negotiating Systems 4. Central American Migrants: LGBTI Asylum Cases Seeking Justice and Making History Suyapa Portillo Villeda 5. Resettlement as Securitization: War, Humanitarianism, and the Production of Syrian LGBT Refugees Fadi Saleh 6. Unsafe Present, Uncertain Future: LGBTI Asylum in Turkey Elif 7. Welcome to Miami: Linking Place, Race and UndocuQueer Youth Activism Rafael Ramirez Solórzano 8. O Canada: HIV Not Welcome Here Ryan Conrad Part III: Resisting/Refusing 9. Bridging Immigration Justice and Prison Abolition Jamila Hammami 10. Queering Deportability: Lesbian Migrant Detention and Deportation in the United Kingdom Rachel A. Lewis 11. Facing Crisis: Queer Representations against the Backdrop of Athens Myrto Tsilimpounidi and Anna Carastathis 12. Fantasy Subjects: Dissonant Performances of Belonging in Queer African Refugee Resettlement Andrew J. Brown 13. Validation Through Documentation: Integrating Activism, Research & Scholarship to Highlight (Validate) Trans Latin@ Immigrant Lives Jack Cáraves and Bamby Salcedo 14. Shameless Interruptions: Finding Survival at the Edges of Trans and Queer Migrations Ruben Zecena Part IV: Critiquing 15. Monarchs and Queers Yasmin Nair 16. The Price of Survival: Family Separation, Coercion, and Help José Guadalupe Herrera Soto 17. The Rhetoric of Family in the US Immigration Movement: A Queer Migration Analysis of the 2014 Central American Child Migrant Crisisa Karma R. Chávez and Hana Masri 18. Imperialism, Settler Colonialism, and Indigeneity: A Queer Migration Roundtable Leece Lee-Oliver, Monisha Das Gupta, Katherine Fobear, and Edward Ou Jin Lee Contributors Index Artist Statements