María-Amelia Viteri explores the a number of unfixed meanings that the time period “Latino” takes on as this class is reappropriated and translated by means of LGBT “Latinos” in Washington, DC, San Salvador, and Quito. utilizing an anthropology-based, interdisciplinary technique, she exposes the artistic ways that migrants—including herself—subvert conventional readings according to state of beginning, pores and skin colour, language, and immigrant prestige. A severe examine the a number of methods migrants view what it capacity to be American, Latino, and/or queer offers fertile flooring for theoretical, methodological, and political debates at the value of a queer transnational and immigration framework while reading citizenship and belonging. Desbordes (un/doing, overflowing borders) ethnographically addresses the bounds and constraints of present paradigms during which sexuality and gender were normally analyzed as they intersect with race, type, ethnicity, immigration prestige, and citizenship. This ebook makes use of the idea that of “queerness” as an analytical software to problematize the idea of a continuing courting among id and practice.

“A refined ethnographer and linguistic anthropologist, Viteri presents a wealthy research of heretofore understudied populations. it is a pioneering study.” — Lawrence l. a. Fountain-Stokes, writer of Queer Ricans: Cultures and Sexualities within the Diaspora

María-Amelia Viteri is affiliate Researcher and Professor of Anthropology at FLACSO/Ecuador (Latin American Graduate tuition of Social Sciences) and vacationing student on the Latin American and Latino reports Institute at Fordham college. She is the coeditor (with Aaron Tobler) of Shifting Positionalities: The neighborhood and overseas Geo-Politics of Surveillance and Policing.