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

Acknowledgments vii Introduction: Queering Migration and Citizenship ix Eithne Luibhéid PART I Disciplining Queer Migrants ONE Trans/Migrant: Christina Madrazo's All-American Story 3(27) Alisa Solomon TWO Social and Legal Barriers: Sexual Orientation and Asylum in the United States 30(31) Timothy J. Randazzo THREE Well-Founded Fear: Political Asylum and the Boundaries of Sexual Identity in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands 61(14) Lionel Cantú Jr. with Eithne Luibhéid and Alexandra Minna Stern FOUR Sexual Aliens and the Racialized State: A Queer Reading of the 1952 U.S. Immigration and Nationality Act 75(17) Siobhan B. Somerville FIVE The Traffic in My Fantasy Butch: Sex, Money, Race, and the Statue of Liberty 92(33) Erica Rand PART II Queering Racial/Ethnic Communities SIX Visibility and Silence: Mariel and Cuban American Gay Male Experience and Representation 125(21) Susana Peña SEVEN Migrancy, Modernity, Mobility: Quotidian Struggles and Queer Diasporic Intimacy 146(15) Martin F. Manalansan IV EIGHT Claiming Queer Cultural Citizenship: Gay Latino (Im)Migrant Acts in San Francisco 161(28) Horacio N. Roque Ramirez Contributors 189(4) Index 193