Overview

"Celebrations of the ""transgender tipping point"" in the second decade of the twenty-first century occurred at the same time of heightened debates and anxieties about immigration in the United States. On Transits and Transitions explores what the increased visibility of trans people in the public sphere means for trans migrants and provides a counter-narrative to the dominant discourse that the inclusion of transgender issues in law and policy represents the progression of legal equality for trans communities. Focusing on the intersection of immigration and trans rights, Josephson presents a careful and innovative examination of the processes by which the category of transgender is produced through and incorporated into the key areas of asylum law, marriage and immigration law, and immigration detention policies. Using mobility as a critical lens, On Transits and Transitions captures the insecurity and precarity created by U.S. immigration control and related processes of racialization to show how im/mobility conditions citizenship and national belonging for trans migrants in the United States."

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Author:   Tristan Josephson
Publisher:   Rutgers University Press
Imprint:   Rutgers University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.003kg
ISBN:  

9781978813564

ISBN 10:   1978813562
Pages:   198
Publication Date:   14 October 2022
Recommended Age:   From 18 to 99 years
Audience:   General/trade ,  College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  General ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Introduction 1 Visibility and Immutability in Asylum Law and Procedure              2 Desiring the Nation: Transgender Trauma in Asylum Declarations  3 Trans Citizenship: Marriage, Immigration, and Neoliberal Recognition       4 Transfer Points: Trans Migrants and Immigration Detention   Coda     Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography   Index  

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Tristan Josephson critically examines how three very different policy regimes--asylum, immigration through marriage, and immigration detention--distill transgender migrants into the 'deserving' and everyone else. An indispensable contribution to the scholarship on trans migrants that exposes the limits of a politics of recognition. --Paisley Currah author of Sex is as Sex Does: Governing Transgender Identity

Author Information

TRISTAN JOSEPHSON is an associate professor of Women’s and Gender Studies at California State University, Sacramento.

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