Exploring the Defeat of Arizona's Marriage Amendment and the Specter of the Immigrant as Queer

A DREAM Disrupted: Undocumented Migrant Youth Disidentifications with U.S. Citizenship

“…Previous scholarship has commented upon the relationship between queer and migrant subjectivity, explaining that queerness is an additional way of understanding migrants' social position, as well as a subjectivity that migrants may intentionally adopt to unsettle existing identity categories and challenge state power (Chávez, 2009b;De Genova, 2010;El-Tayeb, 2011). Although migrants might be interpellated as queer by hegemonic national structures, and might use queer subjectivity to rework existing understandings of insider and outsider status, this analysis suggests how disidentification can be used in the service of adopting queer subjectivity and reveals some of the implications of such tactics.…”