On Transits and Transitions : Trans Migrants and U.S. Immigration Law
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| Title: | On Transits and Transitions : Trans Migrants and U.S. Immigration Law |
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| Description: | Celebrations of the “transgender tipping point” in the second decade of the twenty-first century occurred at the same time of heightened debates and anxieties about immigration in the United States. On Transits and Transitions explores what the increased visibility of trans people in the public sphere means for trans migrants and provides a counter-narrative to the dominant discourse that the inclusion of transgender issues in law and policy represents the progression of legal equality for trans communities. Focusing on the intersection of immigration and trans rights, Josephson presents a careful and innovative examination of the processes by which the category of transgender is produced through and incorporated into the key areas of asylum law, marriage and immigration law, and immigration detention policies. Using mobility as a critical lens, On Transits and Transitions captures the insecurity and precarity created by U.S. immigration control and related processes of racialization to show how im/mobility conditions citizenship and national belonging for trans migrants in the United States. |
| Authors: | Tristan Josephson |
| Resource Type: | eBook. |
| Subjects: | Emigration and immigration law--United States, Asylum, Right of--United States, Trans people--Legal status, laws, etc.--United States, Sexual minorities--Legal status, laws, etc.--United States |
| Categories: | SOCIAL SCIENCE / General, LAW / Civil Rights, LAW / Emigration & Immigration, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Emigration & Immigration, SOCIAL SCIENCE / LGBTQ+ Studies / Transgender Studies |
| Database: | eBook Collection (EBSCOhost) |
| Abstract: | Celebrations of the “transgender tipping point” in the second decade of the twenty-first century occurred at the same time of heightened debates and anxieties about immigration in the United States. On Transits and Transitions explores what the increased visibility of trans people in the public sphere means for trans migrants and provides a counter-narrative to the dominant discourse that the inclusion of transgender issues in law and policy represents the progression of legal equality for trans communities. Focusing on the intersection of immigration and trans rights, Josephson presents a careful and innovative examination of the processes by which the category of transgender is produced through and incorporated into the key areas of asylum law, marriage and immigration law, and immigration detention policies. Using mobility as a critical lens, On Transits and Transitions captures the insecurity and precarity created by U.S. immigration control and related processes of racialization to show how im/mobility conditions citizenship and national belonging for trans migrants in the United States. |
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| ISBN: | 9781978813564 9781978813571 9781978813601 9781978813588 |
