ABSTRACT

Writing an introduction to this collection is tricky and challenging, for its subject matter not only exceeds efforts to define it within specific disciplinary and discursive parameters. But also because transgender migrations resist the unifying rhetorical function of introductions, pointing to the subject's rich generative potential to open up new critical dialogues and terrains of theorizing in/across migration, diaspora, transgender, and queer studies. So, it is with this understanding of transgender migrations' unruliness that I offer readers a brief, anti-totalizing introduction to the shifting heterotopic terrains of transgender migrations.