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Lives That Resist Telling: Migrant and Refugee Lesbians book cover

1st Edition

Lives That Resist Telling Migrant and Refugee Lesbians

Edited By Eithne Luibhéid Copyright 2021
114 Pages
by Routledge

114 Pages
by Routledge

114 Pages
by Routledge
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Lives That Resist Telling challenges the resounding scholarly silence about the lives of migrant women who identify as lesbian, queer, or nonheteronormative. Reworking social science methodologies and theories, the essays explore the experiences of migrant Latina lesbians in Los Angeles; Latina lesbians whose transnational lives span the borders between the United States and Mexico;... Read more

1. Migrant and refugee lesbians: Lives that resist the telling

Eithne Luibhéid

2. Finding sequins in the rubble: The journeys of two Latina migrant lesbians in Los Angeles

Eddy Francisco Alvarez Jr.

3. "We have to do a lot of healing": LGBTQ migrant Latinas resisting and healing from systemic violence

Sandibel Borges

4. Challenging the visibility paradigm: Tracing ambivalences in lesbian migrant women’s negotiations of sexual identity

Mia Liinson

5. Coming out and going abroad: The chuguo mobility of queer women in China

Lucetta Y. L. Kam

6. Lesbian refugees in transit: The making of authenticity and legitimacy in Turkey

Elif Sarı

Biography

Eithne Luibhéid is Professor of Gender and Women’s Studies at the University of Arizona, Tucson, USA. She is the author of Pregnant on Arrival: Making the ‘Illegal’ Immigrant (University of Minnesota Press, 2013) and Entry Denied: Controlling Sexuality at the Border (University of Minnesota Press, 2002); and the co-editor of Queer and Trans Migrations: Dynamics of Illegalization, Detention, and Deportation (University of Illinois Press, 2020).

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