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"It was not lesbians and gay men who initially sought to be recognized by the immigration service. On the contrary, it was the immigration service that sought, in sometimes bizarre and frightening ways, to identify and penalize lesbians and gay men who tried to enter the country."

My professor lent me this, of course my nerdy ass is about to read it cover to cover so I can talk about it with her in office hours😭

"The privileging of economically stable European couples went hand-in-hand with immigration policies that mandated the exclusion and deportation of immigrant women whose sexuality was deemed threatening to, or uncontained within, heteropatriarchal marriage. Discourses... provided tools to describe the threat represented by these 'undesirable' women and to craft techniques for identifying and expelling them.

(intro) We would be better served by developing more complex and nuanced accounts of how sexualization, racialization, and other processes continue to be imposed and contested at multiple levels in the immigration system today.... Relations of power and inequality at the border cannot e separated from inequitable global relations that structure migration patterns or from social hierarchies within the United States.