De Genova, Nicholas. 2010. The Queer Politics of Migration: Reflections on 'Illegality' and 'Incorrigibility'. Studies in Social Justice, 4(2), pp. 101-126. ISSN 1911-4788 [Article]

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The most resounding expression of the truly unprecedented mobilizations of migrants throughout the United States in 2006 was a mass proclamation of collective
defiance: ¡Aquí Estamos, y No Nos Vamos! [Here we are, and we're not leaving!]. This same slogan was commonly accompanied by a still more forcefully incorrigible rejoinder:
¡Y Si Nos Sacan, Nos Regresamos! [... and if they throw us out, we'll come right back!]. It is quite striking and, as this essay contends, not merely provocative but genuinely productive to note
the affinity between the crucial articulation of this radically open - ended politics of migrant presence with the similarly abject and profoundly destabilizing politics of queer presenc
e. In a manner remarkably analogous to the slogan, "We're here, we're queer, get used to it!", the dynamic enunciation of these phrases in the context of the mass mobilizations of migrants
asserted an irreducible spirit of irreverence and disaffection for state power. Both gestures unreservedly and unapologetically assert not only their irreversible presence, furthermore, but
also uphold the intractable challenge of their own intrinsic incorrigibility

Item Type:	Article
Identification Number (DOI):	n/a
Departments, Centres and Research Units:	Anthropology
Dates:	Date Event 2010 Published
Item ID:	8912
Date Deposited:	27 Sep 2013 10:21
Last Modified:	29 Apr 2020 15:53
Peer Reviewed:	Yes, this version has been peer-reviewed.
URI:	https://research.gold.ac.uk/id/eprint/8912

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