Migrant Intimacies and Solidarities: Engaging Queer Migration Research with Black and Brown Futurities

• In Event: Intersectional Futurities & Emancipatory Historiographies: Circular Dances and World Making

Abstract

This paper examines identitarian models which obfuscate ‘transnational connectivities’ between Black and Brown migrations (Grewal). Seeing these transnational connectivities from the vantage point of queer migration research enables my analysis of Black and Brown solidarities to highlight not an additive approach, but a deconstructive analysis of state governance. In asking for research paradigms that demonstrate anti-Blackness in migration research, I highlight recent actions taken by Black Lives Matter, where migration is not seen as a ‘Brown’ issue, but becomes an opportunity to consider queer migrant intimacies and affinities that move beyond identities.

Presenter

• Ruben Zecena, University of Arizona