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

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Review of Queer Migrations: RaCe, laboR, and sugaR in the age of emanCi- pation. The lack of a clear deinition of what exactly a coolie was made it nearly impossible to distinguish between the legally permissible immigration of Chinese laborers and the categorically illegal im- portation of Chinese coolies. Reports of brutal labor conditions in the american south compelled many Chinese laborers to avoid louisiana, and those that made the journey proved to be less doc- ile than planters anticipated.

Between Black and White and lucy m. A People Without a History Jung also documents an important aspect of Reconstruction and southern history to reveal the inner workings of a plantation system on the verge of collapse.

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Jung provocative- ly revises the conventional timeline of the history of asian exclu- sion, commonly believed to begin with the law to restrict the immigration of Chinese laborers. Reimers notes the economic, political, and social conditions that prompt different migrant groups to leave Amerasia Journal their places of origin and the impact these conditions may con- tinue to have on immigrant communities after their arrival in the u.

Other Immigrants is a valuable reference for scholars of ameri- can immigration, ethnic studies, american studies or american history.

These problematic politics reappear toward the end of the book when Reimers attempts to ward off potential objections that immigrants threaten american values or the economy by pointing to their military service dur- ing times of war as one of the ways in which immigrants bring an overall positive contribution to the nation Both Wilson and Eperjesi take a cultural studies approach to highlight the role u. However, whereas Wilson focuses much of his analysis on cultural work by Hawaiian and other Paciic writers, Eperjesi analyses knowledge produced about the Asia Paciic from different perspectives from the continental united states.

In his irst four chapters, Eperjesi analyzes texts by White Americans that actively created an American Paciic in the nineteenth century and at the beginning of the twentieth century. He illustrates that interests in the Paciic and Asia did not result from the clos- ing of the Western frontier in the late nineteenth century.

Rather, these interests formed far before the Civil War, as eperjesi dem- onstrates in his readings of emerson, Whitman, and melville. He illustrates how this imagining is also built on myths, but ones created to cope with exploitation, injustices, and violence.

Rather, this was the culmination of a cen- tury of u. His analysis of popular Chinese historical epic ilms em- phasizes how these ilms consolidate an imaginary of ictive ties between overseas Chinese and China through a nostalgic imag- ining of China.

Conlating conquest with consensual romance is a strategic way of framing colonial projects to make them seem natural, similar to the multiple examples of mythmaking that eperjesi points out elsewhere in this book. Citizenship, and boRdeR CRoss- ings. Randazzo considers the complexity of migrant identities and experiences before and after arrival.

While this edition effectively links civil and human rights by marrying, so to speak, queer rights with immigrant rights, a more powerful shift would result with a closer look at Asian and Paciic islander and african queer migrations to the u. What Queer Migrations does offer is the possibility for others to draw analyses that extrapolate the paralleled experiences of queer migrant communities. What passes for critique within the context of the university presently, in the end, may be little more than a plea for more ef- fective incorporation in global capitalism against the nostalgia of a lingering populism.

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Amerasia Journal Working Through the Contradictions offers provocative explo- rations of this predicament of cultural criticism, and reafirma- tion of the analytical and political relevance of marxism in con- fronting it. Southeast Asian Families in the United States is unique because it is a comparative study that explores the process of immigration and resettlement speciically from the perspective of elder southeast asian refugees.

University of Minnesota Press, It has only been in the last ten to fifteen years that the impact of sexuality on national and international migration has received the serious scholarly attention that it deserves, and that universities, academic presses, and peer-reviewed journals have recognized and validated this field of inquiry. The book is useful as a general, basic introduction to those who know nothing about the topic, and also offers many nuanced readings on specific topics that will amply satisfy experts and specialists. The book's remarkable accessibility also makes it an ideal undergraduate and graduate teaching text.

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As she mentions, queer migration was explicitly banned between and , and the more-recent implementation of policies such as the exclusion of HIV-positive individuals and the lack of recognition of same-sex marriages continues to pose challenges for current-day migrants. Somerville, Erica Rand, and Martin F. Manalansan IV also offer quite fascinating insights into the experience of people of color in the United States and into transnational queer identity formations.

Christina Madrazo's All-American Story" chronicles the harrowing experiences faced by a male-to-female trans woman from Mexico who was raped while detained at the Krome Detention Center in Miami, and the enormous legal travails she has had to go through in her attempts to gain justice and be able to stay in the United States.

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Randazzo's contribution "Social and Legal Barriers: Mariel and Cuban American Gay Male Experience and Representation" is a rigorously researched and subtly argued piece about the impact of effeminate gay male migrants who left Cuba in through the port of Mariel, who totally transformed gay and Cuban culture in Miami. Finally, in his chapter, "Claiming Queer Cultural Citizenship: If you would like to authenticate using a different subscribed institution that supports Shibboleth authentication or have your own login and password to Project MUSE, click 'Authenticate'.