Passing Lines seeks to stimulate dialogue on the role of sexuality and sexual orientation in immigration to the U.S. from Latin America and the Caribbean. The book looks at the complexities, inconsistencies, and paradoxes of immigration from the point of view of both academics and practitioners in the field.

Passing Lines takes a close look at the debates that surround eyewitness testimony, expertise, and advocacy regarding immigration and sexuality, bringing together work by scholars, activists, and others from both sides of the border.

Passing Lines: 
Sexuality and Immigration
Brad Epps, Keja Valens, and Bill Johnson Gonz lez
Introduction
Brad Epps, Keja Valens, and Bill Johnson Gonz lez
Trends in Immigration
Marcelo Su rez-Orozco
New York University; Co-Director, Immigration Studies
?Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Immigration But Were Afraid to Ask?
Eithne Luibh¿id
Bowling Green State University; Department of Ethnic Studies and American Culture 
Studies
 ?Heteronormativity, Responsibility, and Neo-liberal Governance in U.S. Immigration 
Control?
Legal Matters
Deborah Anker
Harvard Law School; Director, Harvard Immigration and Refugee Clinical Program
?Refugee Law, Gender, and the Human Rights Paradigm?
Alice M. Miller
Columbia University; Clinical Population and Family Health, Mailman School of Public 
Health
?Gay Enough: Some Tensions in Seeking the Grant of Asylum and Protecting Global 
Sexual Diversity? 
Brad Epps
Harvard University; Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality; Department of Romance 
Languages and Literatures
?Intimate Conduct, Public Practice, and the Bounds of Citizenship: In the Wake of 
Lawrence v. Texas?
Bill Fairbairn
York University; Centre for Research on Latin America and the Caribbean
?Gay Rights are Human Rights: Gay Asylum Seekers in Canada?
Symbolic and Material Economies
Roger N. Lancaster
George Mason University; Department of Anthropology; Director, Cultural Studies 
Program
?Tolerance and Intolerance in Sexual Cultures in Latin America?
Lawrence La Fountain-Stokes
University of Michigan; Ann Arbor, Latino/a Studies and Spanish
?Cultures of the Puerto Rican Queer Diaspora?
Alberto Sandoval-S nchez
Mt. Holyoke College; Department of Spanish & Italian
?Politicizing Abjection: Towards the Articulation of a Latino AIDS Queer Identity?
Paul Farmer and Nicole Gastineau
Harvard Medical School; Partners in Health
?HIV and the Transnational Movement of People, Money, and Microbes?
Women Immigrants, Women Activists
Matthew E. Price
Harvard Law School
?Unwilling or Unable: Asylum and Non-State Agents of Persecution?
Ang¿lica Ch zaro
Columbia Law School
?Witnessing Memory and Surviving Domestic Violence: The Case of Rodi Alvarado 
Peña?
Kathleen M. Coll 
Stanford University; Feminist Studies
??Yo no estoy perdida?: Immigrant Women (Re)locating Citizenship?
Norma Mogrovejo
Universidad de la Ciudad de M¿xico; Centro de Documentación y Archivo Histórico 
L¿sbico de M¿xico ?Nancy C rdenas?
?Immigration, Self-Exile, and Sexual Dissidence?
Heloisa Maria Galv?o
Brazilian Women's Group; Community Field Coordinator, Boston Public Schools
?An Oral History of Brazilian Women Immigrants in the Boston Area?