Category: Immigration

“Undocumented”: How an Identity Ended a Movement

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date March 13, 2014

Excerpt: Capital and capitalism flow unimpeded through the body of the “Undocumented and Unafraid” immigrant figure, whose only purpose is to solidify the presence of a benevolent neoliberal state through a litany of affective narratives.

On Malayalam and Melancholia

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date February 21, 2014

Excerpt: Am I melancholy because I am alive, or am I alive because I am melancholy?

Capitalism, Class, Inequality Immigration Queer Politics, Culture, and History

Romancing the Border: Or, Making (Self) Deportation Sexy

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date July 18, 2013

Stop buying this bullshit, people, and start asking the hard questions.

Chicago Chronicles Feminism Immigration Queer Politics, Culture, and History Race, Sex, Gender, and Sexuality Reporting

Chicago Dyke March Collective hosts immigration forum

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date June 5, 2013

Since 2008, the Chicago Dyke March Collective (CDMC) has held its annual march in locations outside the city’s traditional Andersonville neighborhood. The CDMC has also, in recent years, sought to engage communities by organizing forums on topics relevant to the area it marches in.

Immigration Yasmin's Media Appearances

Radio Interview with Karma Chávez on Wisconsin Public Radio, WORT

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date December 24, 2012

I recently did an interview with my friend, collaborator, and fellow Against Equality collective member Dr.Karma Chávez on Wisconsin Public Radio, WORT (89.9 fm), out of Madison. We talked about my piece, “Undocumented vs. Illegal: A Distinction without a Difference,” and related matters.

You can listen to it here.

Immigration Politics Queer Politics, Culture, and History Race, Sex, Gender, and Sexuality

Undocumented vs. Illegal: A Distinction without a Difference

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date December 11, 2012

Immigration Politics

Election 2012: Eyes Wide Shut

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date October 31, 2012

I would like us all to collectively dispense with the idea that an Obama administration is any less neoliberal from the last one or from a prospective Romney Presidency.

Immigration Politics

Clash of the Neoliberals: Obama’s Shell Game

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date October 20, 2012

We are persuaded that a gamble is actually a choice, and that may be the biggest shell game of all.

Immigration Prison industrial complex Queer Politics, Culture, and History Yasmin's Media Appearances

An Interview with me and Ralowe T. Ampu for Captive Genders: Trans Embodiment and the Prison Industrial Complex

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date June 29, 2011

Immigration Prison industrial complex Queer Politics, Culture, and History

National Immigrant Justice Center files mass civil rights complaint on behalf of LGBT immigrant detainees

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date April 21, 2011

Breaking News

Originally published in Windy City Times, April 15, 2011

The National Immigrant Justice Center (NIJC), a project of the Heartland Alliance, recently released a mass civil rights complaint about the “abuse and mistreatment” of thirteen immigrant detainees in the custody of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). The complaint was filed with the DHS’s Office of Civil Rights and Civil Liberties and Office of Inspector General on April 13.