Queering migrations towards, from, and beyond Asia / edited by Hugo Cordóva Quero, Joseph N. Goh, and Michael Sepidoza Campos.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Quero, Hugo Córdova, editor.

Goh, Joseph N., 1971- editor.

Campos, Michael Sepidoza, 1971- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Gay immigrants--Asia.

Gay immigrants.

Gay people--Asia.

Gay people.

Gay people--Identity.

Immigrants--Cultural assimilation.

Immigrants.

Emigration and immigration.

Social aspects.

Asia--Emigration and immigration--Social aspects.

Asia.

Emigration and immigration--Social aspects.

Physical Description:

xii, 242 pages ; 23 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.

Summary:

Queering Migrations Towards, From, and Beyond Asia explores the intersection of migration and queerness as they relate to ethnic/racial identity constructions, immigration processes and legal status, the formation of trans/national or trans/cultural partnerships, and families and/or love-friendships. Woven into these narratives are explorations of the roles that religious identities, values, and world views play in the fortification/critique of queer migrant identities. These essays explore assumptions of hetero-normativities, gender role expectations, sexual identities, body configurations, and political practices utilized by individuals and group agency. Rather than considering "queer migrants" as a homogeneous population, this book hopes to expose the diversity of power relationalities, ideological or praxis divergences, and sexual particularities that contour the shape of twenty-first century migrant lives. Book jacket.

Contents:

Part I Towards Asia

1 Should I Stay or Should I Go? Racial Sexual Preferences and Migration in Japan / Jamie Paquin Paquin, Jamie 21

2 Made in Brazil? Sexuality, Intimacy, and Identity Formation among Japanese Brazilian Queer Immigrants in Japan / Hugo Córdova Quero Quero, Hugo Córdova 41

3 Desire, Nation, and Faith: A Roundtable among Emerging Queer Asian/Pacific Islander Religion Scholars / Michael Sepidoza Campos Campos, Michael Sepidoza, Hugo Córdova Quero Quero, Hugo Córdova, Joseph N. Goh Goh, Joseph N., Elizabeth Leung Leung, Elizabeth, Miak Siew Siew, Miak, Lai Shan Yip Yip, Lai Shan 61

Part II From and Around Asia

4 In Search of Dreams: Narratives of Japanese Gay Men on Migration to the United States / Kunisuke Hirano Hirano, Kunisuke 77

5 Queer Imaginings and Traveling of "Family" Across Asia / Romit Dasgupta Dasgupta, Romit 99

6 Transgressive Empowerment: Queering the Spiritualities of the Mak Nyahs of PT Foundation / Joseph N. Goh Goh, Joseph N. 123

Part III Being and Believing: Asian Diaspora

7 Bring Your Own Pink Rice Cooker: Portability of the Queer API Experience / Jonipher Kwong Kwong, Jonipher 141

8 Straddling California and Manila in the Bathhouse: A Queer Ethnography of a Filipino American Bakld Healthworker / Michael Sepidoza Campos Campos, Michael Sepidoza 157

9 Sexy Cool Asians from Brazil: A Study of Second-Generation Japanese Brazilian Gay Men in Brazil / Fábio Ricardo Ribeira Ribeira, Fábio Ricardo 189.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781137447722

1137447729

OCLC:

879662380