Synopses & Reviews
Passing Lines seeks to stimulate dialogue on the role of sexuality and sexual orientation in immigration to the U.S. from Latin America and the Caribbean. The book looks at the complexities, inconsistencies, and paradoxes of immigration from the point of view of both academics and practitioners in the field.
Passing Lines takes a close look at the debates that surround eyewitness testimony, expertise, and advocacy regarding immigration and sexuality, bringing together work by scholars, activists, and others from both sides of the border.
About the Author
Brad Eppsis Professor of Romance Languagesand Literatures, <>HarvardUniversity.
Bill Johnson Gonzálezis an Instructor ofLatino/a Literature at <>WesleyanUniversity.
Keja Valensis a Lecturer on Literature at<>HarvardUniversity.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
About the Contributors
PART I. INTRODUCTION
PART II. TRENDS IN IMMIGRATION
Chapter 1. Everything You Ever Wanted to Know about Immigration but Were Afraid to Ask
by Marcelo Suárez-Orozco
Chapter 2. Heteronormativity, Responsibility, and Neo-liberal Governance in U.S. Immigration Control
by Eithne Luibhéid
PART III. LEGAL MATTERS
Chapter 3. Refugee Law, Gender, and the Human Rights Paradigm
by Deborah Anker
Chapter 4. Gay Enough: Some Tensions in Seeking the Grant of Asylum and Protecting Global Sexual Diversity
by Alice M. Miller
Chapter 5. Intimate Conduct, Public Practice, and the Bounds of Citizenship: In the Wake of Lawrence v. Texas
by Brad Epps
Chapter 6. Gay Rights are Human Rights: Gay Asylum Seekers in Canada
by Bill Fairbairn
PART IV. SYMBOLIC AND MATERIAL ECONOMIES
Chapter 7. Tolerance and Intolerance in Sexual Cultures in Latin America
by Roger N. Lancaster
Chapter 8. Cultures of the Puerto Rican Queer Diaspora
by Lawrence La Fountain-Stokes
Chapter 9. Politicizing Abjection: Towards the Articulation of a Latino AIDS Queer Identity
by Alberto Sandoval-Sánchez
Chapter 10. HIV and the Transnational Movement of People, Money, and Microbes
by Paul Farmer and Nicole Gastineau
PART V. WOMEN IMMIGRANTS, WOMEN ACTIVISTS
Chapter 11. Unwilling or Unable: Asylum and Non-State Agents of Persecution
by Matthew E. Price
Chapter 12. Witnessing Memory and Surviving Domestic Violence: The Case of Rodi Alvarado Peña
by Angélica Cházaro
Chapter 13. "Yo no estoy perdida": Immigrant Women (Re)locating Citizenship
by Kathleen M. Coll
Chapter 14. Immigration, Self-Exile, and Sexual Dissidence
by Norma Mogrovego
Chapter 15. An Oral History of Brazilian Women Immigrants in the Boston Area
by Heloisa Maria Galvão
Index