Western Transnormativity and the U.S. Asylum Process: From Gender-Nonconforming Forced Migrant to Neoliberal Transgender Refugee

dc.contributor.advisorKeating, Christine
dc.contributor.authorVelasquez, Catalina
dc.date.accessioned2020-08-14T03:22:30Z
dc.date.issued2020-08-14
dc.date.submitted2020
dc.descriptionThesis (Master's)--University of Washington, 2020
dc.description.abstractThis research exposes the ongoing violence from sustaining Western nation-state apparatuses. By considering U.S. asylum processes at the turn of the 21st century, it provides insights on how contemporary Western nation-state exported models of bureaucratized legalities and accompanying social norms produce and (re)produce transgender migrant subjectivities. To do so, this research employs three decolonial feminist methods: 1) critical rhetorical analysis of legal and media sources, 2) personal experiences and testimonio, and 3) a historically materialistic dialogical analysis. Through these methods, this research demonstrates the violent process of conversion of gender-nonconforming Global South subjects into transgender refugee ones.
dc.embargo.lift2025-07-19T03:22:30Z
dc.embargo.termsRestrict to UW for 5 years -- then make Open Access
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdf
dc.identifier.otherVelasquez_washington_0250O_21828.pdf
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1773/45708
dc.language.isoen_US
dc.rightsnone
dc.subjectFeminism
dc.subjectimmigration
dc.subjectNeoliberal
dc.subjectRefugee
dc.subjectTestimonio
dc.subjectTransgender
dc.subjectGender studies
dc.subjectPublic policy
dc.subjectLGBTQ studies
dc.subject.otherGender, women, and sexuality
dc.titleWestern Transnormativity and the U.S. Asylum Process: From Gender-Nonconforming Forced Migrant to Neoliberal Transgender Refugee
dc.typeThesis

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