FACULTY OF HEALTH AND SOCIETY | Seminar
Abolitionist Intimacies: Queer and Trans Migrants Against the Deportation State

Abolitionist Intimacies: Queer and Trans Migrants Against the Deportation State

The Gender collegium invites all to a seminare with Dr. Eithne Luibhéid where she talks about her new book, Abolitionist Intimacies: Queer and Trans Migrants Against the Deportation State, which centers writings by and about queer- and transgender-identified migrants and allies who mobilize intimacies to contest pervasive U.S. deportation practices and work toward a future without detention, deportation, or migration controls. Framing U.S. migration controls as an infrastructure of chokepoints, the chapters center key chokepoints around which queer and trans migrants and allies have especially mobilized: proposed pathways to citizenship for undocumented migrants; marriage as a means for legalization; traffic interactions as a pipeline to deportation; and struggles to end queer and trans migrant detention. In mobilizing against these chokepoints, activists and theorists have advanced new visions and configurations of possible intimacies that not only challenge deportation but also rework what border controls and citizenship could mean.