The “Stuff” of Archives

Manalansan, Martin F.

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“…Most of the Canadian and U.S. empirical literature about queer and trans migrants with precarious status focuses on LGBTQI refugees (LaViolette, 2007(LaViolette, , 2009Lee et al, 2017;Murray, 2016;Nicol et al, 2014;Rehaag, 2008Rehaag, , 2009Ricard, 2011Ricard, , 2014. There is also scholarship that focuses on same-gender spousal sponsorship (Farber, 2010;LaViolette, 2004;Miluso, 2004;Zaske, 2006), international students (Kato, 1998;Oba & Pope, 2013), undocumented status (Cruz, 2008;Manalansan, 2014), and detention (Solomon, 2005). Three key themes emerge from this literature: legal implications; multiple identity formation; and broader historical, political, and social dimensions.…”

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“…There is also scholarship that focus on how queer and trans migrants navigate undocumented status and detention, especially in the United States (Cruz, 2008;Manalansan, 2014;Rivera-Silber, 2013;Terriquez, 2015). These studies suggest that queer and trans undocumented people experience employment and housing barriers and are often denied access to health and social services.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…These studies suggest that queer and trans undocumented people experience employment and housing barriers and are often denied access to health and social services. Some studies suggest that queer and trans undocumented people resist through living their everyday lives (Manalansan, 2014) or actively participating in migrant justice organizing, such as by the creation of the "undocuqueer" slogan (Rivera-Silber, 2013; Terriquez, 2015). The few studies that have examined detention suggest that queer and trans migrants who are detained encounter heterocisnormative practices such as not recognizing same-gender couples as families (Lee & Brotman, 2011), the separation of migrants based on a gender binary with the presumption that everyone is cis (Spade, 2011), and sexual assault of trans women by detention security guards (Solomon, 2005).…”

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confidence: 99%

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Responses to Structural Violence: The Everyday Ways in Which Queer and Trans Migrants With Precarious Status Respond to and Resist the Canadian Immigration Regime

Lee

2019

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This article examines how the Canadian immigration regime socially organizes the everyday lives of queer and trans migrants with precarious status. Drawing from key findings from an institutional ethnographic study, this article maps out the disjuncture between the actual experiences of queer and trans migrants with precarious status and the ideological and textual production of precarious status by the Canadian state. Making explicit this disjuncture reveals how the Canadian immigration regime enacts structural violence upon queer and trans migrants. This article also engages with the response-based approach to violence in order to understand how queer and trans migrants actively respond to this violence. In doing so, this article highlights the ways in which queer and trans migrants respond and resist the structural violence integral to the Canadian state’s production of precarious status.

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Section: The Emergence Of Queer and Trans Migration Studiesmentioning

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Responses to Structural Violence: The Everyday Ways in Which Queer and Trans Migrants With Precarious Status Respond to and Resist the Canadian Immigration Regime

Lee

2019

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“…As the scholarly interest in DIY and community-based archiving grows -of which music archiving and heritage is a subset -so has a body of literature emerged focusing specifically on queer and feminist archives. Our review of this literature is not exhaustive, but includes several books (see Kumbier 2014;Halberstam 2005;Cvetkovich 2003), edited collections (see Keilty & Dean 2013; Bly & Wooten 2012), journal articles (see Caswell & Cifor 2016;Chenier 2016;Cooper 2015;Taavetti 2015;Samer 2014;Sheffield 2014Sheffield , 2016McLeod et al 2014;Eichhorn 2014;Manalansan 2014;Madden 2013;Wakimoto et al 2013;Boulay et al 2012;Darms 2012), and special issues by journals such as Radical History Review ('Queering Archives: Historical Unravelings', 2015) and Archivaria ('Special Section on Queer Archives', 2009).…”

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Queering the Community Music Archive

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Buttigieg

2017

Australian Feminist Studies

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Archiving has become an increasingly important practice in the preservation of feminist and queer histories. In this article, we pay specific attention to the emerging body of literature on feminist archives of popular music, many of which are community-based, DIY initiatives. These community-led archives aim to comprehensively collect the ephemeral, intangible heritage of feminist music cultures that have traditionally been excluded in popular music canons and marginalised by mainstream heritage institutions. The literature revealed that feminist music archives function as much more than spaces for preservation -they are affective as much as they are intellectual, and they are key sites for activism and community-building. These two themes -activism and affectivity -thread together the body of literature, providing both the driving force behind these DIY archives and their potentiality in the communities of interest they cater to. The community archivists accounted for in the literature have all engaged in practices of queering the community music archive; taking the mainstream heritage institution as a model and rebuilding it from the ground up, renegotiating its boundaries and notions of linear history, and reconfiguring its practices to account for lives lived in the margins of the mainstream.

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“…This latter move has taken place, moreover, in the context of wider interrogations of the nature of the empirical (Adkins and Lury 2009) that push us to reconsider the 'stuff' with which we work and what it is we accept as archival evidence. This means the heavily linguistic or textual focus that until recently dominated conceptualisations of archival evidence has been supplemented on the one hand by a focus on expanding data resources and tools of quantification (Lemercier and Zalc 2008;Solberg 2012;Potter 2013) and on the other by considerations of affect and feeling (Cvetkovich 2003;Cifor and Gilliland 2016;Cram 2016) as well as matter and materiality (Dever 2013;Manalansan 2014).…”

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Archives and New Modes of Feminist Research

Dever

2017

Australian Feminist Studies

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Archives retain a sustained gravitational pull on feminist researchers. We experience them as sites of promise and desire, even as we recognise they are also sites of power and privilege that have long been implicated in acts of violence and erasure. We celebrate the growth in online social and cultural data and the new questions, methods and debates that this proliferation supports, at the same time as we ask what feminist archival research looks like in an era when the metaphor of the archive is invoked to cover almost any kind of memory, collection or accumulation. Importantly, we also acknowledge that our work as feminists is conditioned by the toolsepistemological and technicalavailable to us at any given point in time. For this reason, contributors here are keen to mark out what may be novel and what is enduring in the ways in which feminist thought and feminist practice frame archives. What follows are some initial provocations along these lines. If, as Susan Howe has observed, 'the nature of archival research is in flux' (2014, 9), it is critical to ask what this means for feminist researchers. Howe was pointing to the impact of digital technologies on the experience of being in the archive and there is no question that largescale digitisation projects have brought about monumental changes in our understanding of what an archive is and in the 'what' and 'how' of archival research. If archival research was previously synonymous with the 'need to see and touch objects and documents' (Howe 2014, 9), that experience is increasingly digitally mediated. Digital technologies have transformed archival access for researchers in ways that offer degrees of democratisation for what was once an elite practice available principally to the privileged few with time, money and credentials. Further, as Deborah Withers observes, 'the digital has enabled greater immediate access to feminism's already-there, as well as emergent proximities to archival materialities existing under the digital skin-screen' (2015, 27). Yet mass digitisation and the affordances of web 2.0 technologies are not without their challenges. The cost of developing and maintaining digital archival environments has seen major shifts in budget priorities within and across collecting institutions, frequently against a background of widespread and sustained budget cuts. How then might feminist researchers begin to talk about these new and emerging political economies of archiving and the various forms of labourold and newthat they demand? After all, as Stacie Williams has pointedly observed, 'there is a cultural expectation that archivists will work without complaint, for very little and if we are lacking resources, we will hire volunteers or unpaid interns to do the work' (2016). Can we, for example, acknowledge archiving as an historically highly feminised profession at the same time as pointing to the ways in which archival labourlike academic labour-'is often times unequal, rooted historically in sexism, racism, ableism, and classism' (Williams 2016)? Ho...

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The “Stuff” of Archives

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Responses to Structural Violence: The Everyday Ways in Which Queer and Trans Migrants With Precarious Status Respond to and Resist the Canadian Immigration Regime

Responses to Structural Violence: The Everyday Ways in Which Queer and Trans Migrants With Precarious Status Respond to and Resist the Canadian Immigration Regime

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