Abolitionist Intimacies: Queer and Trans Migrants Against the Deportation State

by Eithne Luibhéid

Book Overview

In Abolitionist Intimacies, Eithne Luibh id examines writings by and about queer- and trans-identified migrants and allies who contest pervasive US immigration practices and work toward a future without detention, deportation, and border controls. Luibh id shows how these migrants and activists confront such controls by mobilizing intimacies--forging close connections in order to survive in the present. From forms of kinship beyond the heterosexual...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1478031239
• ISBN13: 9781478031239
• Release Date: May 2025
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.98 lbs.