Straightening Out the Nation
Citizenship Politics and the Backlash against LGBTQ Families
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Beschreibung
This is a creative and compelling dive into the intersecting issues of citizenship and kinship in the contemporary U.S. By juxtaposing legal changes and executive orders focused on immigration, transgender identity, same-sex marriage, and citizenship the author explores the underlying logics driving contemporary political efforts to curtail citizenship rights for those outside “traditionally” defined families. The identification of these insidious conservative efforts to rollback rights granted by law to non-heterosexual-conforming people is profoundly important scholarship.
— Sandra Patton-Imani, Professor of American Studies, Drake University, United States.
This Palgrave Pivot reframes the second Trump administration’s attempts to repeal birthright citizenship, accelerate the deportation of migrants, and deny transgender legal recognitions as the unapologetic extensions of earlier efforts to restrict state-mandated recognition of queer transnational families in the afterlife of same-sex marriage. By examining policies denying queer parents the right to transmit jus sanguinis citizenship to their foreign-born children alongside these Trump 2.0 executive orders and the Dobbs decision, the book maps how culture-war controversies over unauthorized immigration, transgender rights and reproductive justice work together to reinforce heteronormative and racialized ideals of national belonging in a political era that diversifies them. The book concludes by extending queer and feminist critiques of conservative gay rights formulations and methodological nationalisms to explore where we go from here, pointing to ways that queer, migrant and allied communities are already reimagining kinship, citizenship and migration.
Katie Oliviero is Associate Professor of Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies at Dickinson College, USA. Her research uses sociolegal, queer, transnational and intersectional feminist approaches to examine the sociopolitical debates surrounding migration, citizenship, LGBTQ rights, reproductive justice and disability. She is the author of Vulnerability Politics (NYU Press 2018).
This Palgrave Pivot reframes the second Trump administration’s attempts to repeal birthright citizenship, accelerate the deportation of migrants, and deny transgender legal recognitions as the unapologetic extensions of earlier efforts to restrict state-mandated recognition of queer transnational families in the afterlife of same-sex marriage. By examining policies denying queer parents the right to transmit jus sanguinis citizenship to their foreign-born children alongside these Trump 2.0 executive orders and the Dobbs decision, the book maps how culture-war controversies over unauthorized immigration, transgender rights and reproductive justice work together to reinforce heteronormative and racialized ideals of national belonging in a political era that diversifies them. The book concludes by extending queer and feminist critiques of conservative gay rights formulations and methodological nationalisms to explore where we go from here, pointing to ways that queer, migrant and allied communities are already reimagining kinship, citizenship and migration.
Articulates how citizenship-denials mobilize genetic ethnonationalisms to counter LGBTQ and feminist advances Examines the politicization of migration, queer intimacies, transgender life, and reproductive justice Forecasts threats to LGBTQ marriage, family, and jus soli citizenship rights
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Katie Oliviero
Themen in »Straightening Out the Nation«
Jus sanguinis citizenship LGBTQ families national belonging assisted reproductive technologies ethnonationalism masculinity genetic ethnonationalism birthright citizenship queer citizenship citizenship transmission bionational matrimony methodological nationalism queer kinship transnational family formation reproductive justice