Keating, ChristineVelasquez, Catalina2020-08-142020-08-142020Velasquez_washington_0250O_21828.pdfhttp://hdl.handle.net/1773/45708Thesis (Master's)--University of Washington, 2020This 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.application/pdfen-USnoneFeminismimmigrationNeoliberalRefugeeTestimonioTransgenderGender studiesPublic policyLGBTQ studiesGender, women, and sexualityThesis