This book offers an impressive collection of essays and visual materials by activists, academics, and artists from different areas of expertise. The essays share a critical disposition that denatures heteronormativity and cisnormativity while tackling how these forces create displacement and punish subalternized subjects who dare cross international borders. Contributors offer a wide range of cases, concepts, and critiques that chart rich theoretical possibilities for the burgeoning field the editors name “queer and trans migrations.” They do so while also disputing the terms on which so-called migrant and refugee crises are constructed in dominant discourses. That is, the volume grapples with how the true crisis concerns “an increase in processes of migrant illegalization, detention and deportation” rather than the raw fact of the “arrival and presence of large numbers of migrants” (1–2).
The volume provides the reader with a wealth of concepts with powerful methodological implications. Beginning with the introduction, Karma...
