Queer Migration Politics Research Articles

Queer migrtion politics

The book Queer migration politics: activist rhetoric and coalitional possibilities, written by Karma R. Chávez, addresses the work and actions of queer activists who aim to change or stress queer migration policy. The adopted methodology is to analyze the activist rhetoric in the public space and the role played by the activists in the construction of queer migration policies. Through her approach, the author presents political and strategic approaches to the theme, presenting the idea of ​​coalition as an alternative to mainstream LGBT immigration movements and to the utopian politics of some queer theories. In this sense, the book here reviewed is deemed relevant as it contributes to the studies on activist’s rhetoric and the protection of the LGBT migrant community.

Belonging, desire, and queer Iranian diasporic politics

Recent approaches to the study of queer migration politics and diaspora hold significant potential in advancing the study of the geographies of migration. Most notably, they can help illuminate the impossible positions that migrants often occupy; challenge diasporic norms governing cultural authenticity; destabilize conventional understandings of gender, nation, and home; and situate diasporic experiences within present and future possibilities for new ways of expressing intimacy and kinship beyond the limited scope of nationality and citizenship. In this paper, I will argue for a queer intervention on migration studies that critically expands geographic approaches to migration by denaturalizing and complicating approaches to understanding the emotional diasporic experiences of belonging and home. I will think through the usefulness of such approaches in my own ongoing research on debates concerning Iranian diasporic identities and communities in Iranian diasporic cinema. In analyzing two recent films, I argue for the tremendous creative potential of diasporic filmmaking in imagining complex spaces of home and belonging that otherwise seem impossible. Ultimately, I see queer approaches to migration politics and diaspora as having significant creative, critical, and positive potential to understanding how migrants placed in impossible situations create new lives for themselves.

Queer Migration Politics: Activist Rhetoric and Coalitional Possibilities

Queer Migration Politics: Activist Rhetoric and Coalitional Possibilities

Reform Without Justice: Latino Migrant Politics and the Homeland Security State by Alfonso Gonzales, and: Queer Migration Politics: Activist Rhetoric and Coalitional Possibilities by Karma R. Chávez (review)

Reform Without Justice: Latino Migrant Politics and the Homeland Security State by Alfonso Gonzales, and: Queer Migration Politics: Activist Rhetoric and Coalitional Possibilities by Karma R. Chávez (review)

Queer Migration Politics: Activist Rhetoric and Coalitional Possibilities by Karma R. Chávez (review)

Queer Migration Politics: Activist Rhetoric and Coalitional Possibilities by Karma R. Chávez (review)

A Queer Migrant Politics of the Here and Now

Book Review| January 01 2015 A Queer Migrant Politics of the Here and Now Queer Migration Politics: Activist Rhetoric and Coalitional Possibilities. Chávez, Karma R.. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2013. ix + 214 pp. Melissa Autumn White Melissa Autumn White Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google GLQ (2015) 21 (1): 177–179. https://doi.org/10.1215/10642684-2818624 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Melissa Autumn White; A Queer Migrant Politics of the Here and Now. GLQ 1 January 2015; 21 (1): 177–179. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/10642684-2818624 Download citation file: Zotero Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search Books & JournalsAll JournalsGLQ Search Advanced Search The text of this article is only available as a PDF. © 2015 by Duke University Press2015 Article PDF first page preview Close Modal You do not currently have access to this content.

Queer Migration Politics: Activist Rhetoric and Coalitional Possibilities

Queer Migration Politics: Activist Rhetoric and Coalitional Possibilities