Queering Migrations Towards, From, and Beyond Asia

The book explores migration and queerness as they relate to ethnic/racial identity constructions, immigration processes and legal status, the formation of trans/national and trans/cultural partnerships, and friendships. It explores the roles that religious identities/values/worldviews play in the fortification/critique of queer migrant identities.

Table of Contents Acknowledgments Foreword Introduction: Trans/Pacific Affairs: Queer-Journeyers in Search of New Liaisons; Hugo Córdova Quero, Joseph N. Goh and Michael Sepidoza Campos PART I: TOWARDS ASIA 1. Should I Stay or Should I Go? Sexual Preferences and Migration in Japan; Jamie Paquin 2. Made in Brazil? Sexuality, Intimacy, and Identity Formation among Japanese Brazilian Queer Immigrants in Japan; Hugo Córdova Quero 3. Desire, Nation and Faith: A Roundtable among Emerging Queer Asian/Pacific Islander Religion Scholars (EQARS); Hugo Córdova Quero, Joseph N. Goh, Elizabeth Leung, Michael Sepidoza Campos, Miak Siew, and Lai Shan Yip PART II: FROM AND AROUND ASIA 4. In Search of Dreams: Narratives of Japanese Gay Men on Migration to the United States; Kunisuke Hirano 5. Queer Imaginings and Travelings of 'Family' Across Asia; Romit Dasgupta 6. Transgressive Empowerment: Queering the Spiritualities of the Mak Nyahs of PT Foundation; Joseph N. Goh PARTIII: BEING AND BELIEVING: ASIAN DIASPORA 7. 'Bring Your Own Pink Rice Cooker': Portability of the Queer Asian and Pacific Islander (API) Experience; Jonipher Kwong 8. Straddling California and Manila in the Bathhouse: A Queer Ethnography of A Filipino-American Baklâ Healthworker; Michael Sepidoza Campos 9. Sexy Cool Asians From Brazil: A Study of Second-Generation Japanese-Brazilian Gay Men in Brazil; Fabio Ribeira Notes on Contributors Index of Names and Subjects