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This special double issue of GLQ explores the interface between queerness and migration, challenging heterosexist and heteronormative assumptions that often underpin traditional migration scholarship. Refusing to treat queer migrants as a homogeneous group, the issue also insists that sexuality scholarship must rethink the role of migration in constructing heterogeneous sexual identities, communities, politics, and practices. Considering queer migration to the United States, from the Philippines, and between Australia and Asia, Russia and Israel, and France and the Dominican Republic, contributors critically examine how sexuality shapes all migration processes and experiences. The issue situates queer migration within global processes of colonization, globalization, capitalism, nationalism, and slavery. One contributor argues that a queer Atlantic history emerged during the Middle Passage experience of slavery, connecting this history to the contemporary movement of Haitian refugees and Dominican migrant laborers. Another considers how the policing of queer migrant bodies and of "unnatural offenses" by colonial administration in the Nicobar and Andaman islands ultimately reconfigured the ecology of the entire Indian Ocean archipelago. Another contributor theorizes how gay couples comprised of young Asian emigres and considerably older white citizens negotiate Australian immigration policy to subvert dominant forms of nationalism and citizenship embedded in long histories of inequality between Australia and Asia. Other essays explore how transgender histories and theories transform queer migration scholarship; how "queer complicities" with contemporary neoliberal migration politics uphold regimes of violence and inequality; and how migration regimes and settlement policies in various parts of the world identify individuals as "queer," "deviant," or "abnormal" within racial, gender, class, cultural, and geopolitical hierarchies. Contents: QUEER/MIGRATION: An Unruly Body of Scholarship (Eithne Luibhéid) * BLACK ATLANTIC, QUEER ATLANTIC: Queer Imaginings of the Middle Passage (Omise'eke Natasha Tinsley) * A POLITICAL ECOLOGY OF "UNNATURAL OFFENCES": State Security, Queer Embodiment, and the Environmental Impacts of Prison Migration (Kath Weston) * SAME-SEX MIGRATION IN AUSTRALIA: From Interdependency to Intimacy (Audrey Yue) * BETWEEN GULAGS AND PRIDE PARADES: Sexuality, Nation, and Haunted Speech Acts (Adi Kuntsman) * SEXUALITY, MIGRATION, AND THE SHIFTING LINE BETWEEN LEGAL AND ILLEGAL STATUS (Eithne Luibhéid) * THE HAUNTING OF GAY MANILA: Global Space-Time and the Specter of Kabaklaan (Bobby Benedicto) * TACIT SUBJECTS (Carlos Ulises Decena) * QUEER CARIBBEAN HOMECOMINGS: The Collaborative Art Exhibits of Nelson Ricart-Guerrero and Christian Vauzelle (Maja Horn) * ALL THAT GLITTERS: Trans-ing California's Gold Rush Migrations (Clare Sears) * TRANSPORTATION: Translating Filipino and Filipino American Tomboy Masculinities through Global Migration and Seafaring (Kale Bantigue Fajardo) |