National Queer and Transgender Vision Statement on Immigration Reform
by Debanuj
http://debanuj-speakupnow.blogspot.com/2008/05/national-queer-and-transgender-vision.html (http://debanuj-speakupnow.blogspot.com/2008/05/national-queer-and-transgender-vision.html)
QUEERS AND IMMIGRATION: A VISION STATEMENT
Two of the most divisive issues in the United States today are those concerning Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer rights and immigration. There is little discussion of how immigration is also an issue for queer people, and even less analysis of the structural similarities between queer and immigrant struggles. Queer immigrants are marginalized or invisible at the intersection of two identities. As a whole, more complex family structures -- such as those of binational same-sex couples and extended families -- are completely absent from the larger struggle for immigration reform.