ABSTRACT
Transgender Migrations brings together a top-notch collection of emerging and established scholars to examine the way that the term "migration" can be used not only to look at the way trans bodies migrate from one gender to the (an?) other, but the way that trans people migrate in the larger geopolitical contexts of immigration reform, the war on terror, the war on drugs, and the increased policing of national borders.
The book centers trans-ing experiences, identities, and politics, and treats these identities as inextricably intertwined with other social identities, institutions, and discourses of sexuality, nationality, race and ethnicity, globalization, colonialism, and terrorism. The chapter authors explore not only the movement of bodies in, through, and across spaces and borders, but also chart the metamorphoses of these bodies in relation to migration and mobility.
Transgender Migrations takes the theory documented in The Transgender Studies Reader and blows it up to a global scale. It is the logical next step for scholarship in this dynamic, emerging field.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|48 pages
Affective Alien(n)ations and Queer(Re)territorializations
chapter 1|21 pages
Colorful Bodies in the Multikulti Metropolis
chapter 2|25 pages
Forging “Moral Geographies”
part II|48 pages
Trans Aesthetics, Counterpublics and Spatiality
chapter 3|17 pages
Transgender Movement(s) and Beating the Straight Flush
part III|31 pages
Transectionalities
chapter 6|12 pages
“Passing for White, Passing for Man”
part IV|20 pages
Troubling Trans and Queer Theory