ABSTRACT
Sexuality is a focal point of border regimes and a site of the state’s attempt to control, regulate, and discipline certain bodies and populations, especially queer sexualities and genders. The notion of the differential movements of queer migrants along and across borders – within the borderland – points to the permanence of negotiations and the persistence of the heterosexual matrix. In the case of border regimes, the processes of bordering can be seen in the rejection of certain kinds of bodies, sexualities, and genders to enter the territory of a state or in the differentiation between ‘credible’ and ‘incredible’ refugees: sexuality is a means for the reproduction and maintenance of border regimes. The incarceration of migrants at the border – in the United States, migrants are one of the fastest growing populations in jail – refers to their permanent control and disciplining.
