Transgender Migrations

<p><em>Transgender Migrations</em> brings together a top-notch collection of emerging and established scholars to examine the way that the term migration can be used not only to look at the way trans bodies migrate from one gender to the other but the way that trans people migrate in the larger geopolitical contexts of immigration reform the war on terror the war on drugs and the increased policing of national borders. </p> <p><em>The book centers trans-ing experiences identities and politics and treats these identities as inextricably intertwined with other social identities institutions and discourses of sexuality nationality race and ethnicity globalization colonialism and terrorism. The chapter authors explore not only the movement of bodies in through and across spaces and borders but also chart the metamorphoses of these bodies in relation to migration and mobility. </em></p>