Description: Eithne Luibhéid examines writings by and about queer- and trans-identified migrants and allies who contest pervasive US immigration practices and work toward a future without detention, deportation, and border controls.
Review Quotes: "Building on her record as a foremost scholar of immigration, Eithne Luibhéid offers powerful and innovative heuristics for thinking about how queer and trans migrants and their allies leverage their intimacies to resist deportation infrastructures and build abolitionist futures. Thoroughly researched, masterfully argued, and elegantly written, Abolitionist Intimacies will shift how you think about immigration regimes, but more importantly, it will change what you believe is possible for changing them."--Karma R. Chavez, author of, The Borders of AIDS: Race, Quarantine, and Resistance
"Abolitionist Intimacies offers us an extraordinarily timely analysis of immigration, citizenship, and deportation practices that center queer and trans migrants' voices across academic scholarship, public advocacy, activism, and art. Eithne Luibhéid's clear writing and her skill at laying out complicated histories and political frameworks make this book extremely accessible and useful to a wide range of readers. It is greatly needed right now."--Toby Beauchamp, author of, Going Stealth: Transgender Politics and U.S. Surveillance Practices"For migrants, researchers, students, activists, allies and practitioners, [Abolitionist Intimacies] offers a compelling and humane account of the struggles and solidarities that shape queer and trans migrant life today."
--Jessica Walmsley, Ethnic and Racial Studies