... from an “unchosen starting place” (Susan Stryker) and toward the possibility of joy embodied in Salzmann's figure of “the migrant of love.” Considered in a broader social and political context, this powerful tangle of trans- and love bears out against crisis politics in contemporary Germany...

...Bahar Azadi; Julia Zélie; Florence Michard; Yazdan Yazdanpanah Abstract HIV infection burden is globally high among transgender women (TGW) and particularly in TGW migrant sex workers and TGW subpopulations with structural inequalities like racism and classism. In addition to stigma related...

... nonbinary method. Writing against the logics of displacement, disciplinarity, and depletion, what follows is a brief meditation on both the institutionalization of trans studies in Western academia and the material disregard of black people, trans people, migrants, and other oppressed and vulnerable people...

...-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 European side, is to prevent migrants and refugees from ever arriving. So, they end up staying in deportation camps in Libya and Turkey for months or even years. Still, migrants and refugees undertake various routes via Mediterranean passages to flee physical, economic, and environmental violence, while...

... to the far horizon, an elsewhere that remains imbued with potential. 1. In May 2018, Roxsana Hernández was detained after presenting herself for asylum at the San Ysidro, California, port of entry. She had traveled with other transgender migrants as part of a migrant caravan. Days after Hernández...

... strategy for transgender subjects migrating to the United States. As individuals who are frequently rejected by their families and who are especially vulnerable (and often especially visible) members of their communities, trans migrants have few options to access documented status. Routinely depicted...

... and actualization of a less polarized present. In “On the Politics of Love and Trans-Migrant Theater in Germany,” Olivia Landry reviews, critiques, and analyzes Sasha Marianna Salzmann's 2016 play Meteoriten ( Meteorites ), billed as both a key text of the so-called postmigrant theater and the first...

..., Biopolitics, and the Apotheosis of the Modern Body . Durham, NC : Duke University Press . Martin Maria . 2020 . “ Official Alleges That the U.S. Has Deported Many COVID-19 Positive Migrants to Guatemala .” NPR , April 15 . www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2020/04/15/834999661...

... under capitalist heteropatriarchy. 8 Furthermore, it might be argued that the politics of Anglophone transfeminism has been limited by its own monolingualism and has been challenged in the UK by transfeminism(s) centering migrant perspectives, but I refrain from developing this argument here...

... on communities of color, situate trans issues as more explicitly linked to transnational migration, socioeconomic class, labor, and precarity. Bubot niyar , for example, focuses on a group of Filipina migrant workers who, by day, care for elderly Orthodox Jewish men in Israel; by night, the same workers form...

... ranging. Late nineteenth-century illustrated images of Chinese migrants to the United States rub shoulders with late twentieth-century film and installation art. In “Metals,” which constitutes part 3, Chen makes a strong case for the liveness of chemical elements alongside humans and nonhuman animals...

..., retinal and fingerprint scanning for prisoners, and fingerprint scanning for migrants to the United States through the Department of Homeland Security's US-VISIT program ( Magnet 2011 ; Department of Homeland Security 2013 ). For trans theory, then, biometrics are a focal point for examining...

..., the transfeminist network endorsed more transgressive demands by focusing on the different forms of gender-based violence that operate simultaneously with, and blend into, other forms of social oppression. Thus, activism concerning migrants, decolonization, or sex work, for example, became central concerns within...

... category, pointing out that there is no easy dichotomy between emancipation and reproduction of the norm. For example, Aren Z. Aizura points out the underlying nationalist epistemic violence in trans-focused documentaries aimed at raising awareness about trans migrant asylum seekers. We can identify...

... women, nonbinary people, and migrants for sex worker rights. For those who have not seen the films, here is what happened. In 2013 I attended a rally to protest Project ROSE, which was a sting and antitrafficking program carried out by the Phoenix police, Arizona State University (ASU) School...

... of the waters of the world, and of the world itself. Tupaitá: stone of God. References Bueno Wilson . 1992 . Mar paraguayo (Paraguayan Sea). São Paulo : Editora Iluminuras . Larkosh Christopher . 2006 . “ ‘Writing in the Foreign’: Migrant Sexuality and Translation of the Self...

... somewhere else, outside the West, or that is ascribed to migrants, Black and Brown persons, or Muslims—all of whom are constructed as the eternal migrants who can never belong in the Western nation-state (see Haritaworn 2012 ; El-Tayeb 2012 ; Tudor 2018 ). With this ascription, sexual violence gets...

.... These practitioners engage transmedia critically by paying attention to shifting networks of interrelated references, such as masculine and feminine, surface and essence, migrant and citizen; race, region, ethnicity, and nationality; urban, suburban, and rural; post- and nonindustrial; human, animal, plant, and thing...

... ecuatorianas: El viaje y el cuerpo ” (“Ecuadorian Transsexuals: The Voyage and the Body”). In América Latina migrante: Estado, familias, identidades (Migrant Latin America: State, Families, Identities), edited by Herrera Gioconda and Ramírez Jacques , 343 – 60 . Quito, Ecuador : FLACSO...