National citizenship, migrant deportation and gender/sexual logics of home

ABSTRACT

This article highlights deportation when imagining the futures of citizenship studies and nation-based citizenship. I center Beloved Home, one of the pillars of the Trans Agenda for Liberation, in order to discuss how nation-state citizenship and migrant deportation regimes converge to make home impossible for many living in the United States. Beloved Home especially foregrounds genders and sexualities, in their interactions with (settler) colonialism, racial capitalism, and slavery, as generating and legitimating ‘unhoming’ through logics of normative family and home, and highlights transgender, queer and feminist scholarship and activisms as resources/tools for transformation.

KEYWORDS:

• Citizenship
• deportation
• gender
• sexuality
• queer
• transgender
• LGBTQ

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Eithne Luibhéid

Eithne Luibhéid is Professor of Gender and Women’s Studies at the University of Arizona (UA) and the former Director of UA’s Institute for LGBT Studies. She is the author of Pregnant on Arrival: Making the ‘Illegal’ Immigrant (University of Minnesota Press, 2013) and Entry Denied: Controlling Sexuality at the Border (University of Minnesota Press 2002). Luibhéid is the co-editor of Queer and Trans Migrations: Processes of Illegalization, Detention, and Deportation (University of Illinois Press, 2020), A Global History of Sexuality (Wiley Blackwell, 2014), and Queer Migrations: Sexuality, Citizenship, and Border Crossings (University of Minnesota Press, 2005); and the editor of Lives that Resist Telling: Migrant and Refugee Lesbians (Routledge 2021) which was previously published as a special issue of the Journal of Lesbian Studies (2020), and of a special issue of GLQ on “Queer Migrations” (2008).