Lesbians, prostitutes, women likely to have sex across racial
lines, "brought to the United States for immoral purposes, " or
"arriving in a state of pregnancy" -- national threats, one and
all. Since the late nineteenth century, immigrant women's sexuality
has been viewed as a threat to national security, to be contained
through strict border-monitoring practices. By scrutinizing this
policy, its origins, and its application, Eithne Luibheid shows how
the U.S. border became a site not just for controlling female
sexuality but also for contesting, constructing, and renegotiating
sexual identity.
Initially targeting Chinese women, immigration control based on
sexuality rapidly expanded to encompass every woman who sought
entry to the United States. The particular cases Luibheid examines
-- efforts to differentiate Chinese prostitutes from wives, the
1920s exclusion of Japanese wives to reduce the Japanese-American
birthrate, the deportation of a Mexican woman on charges of
lesbianism, the role of rape in mediating women's border crossings
today -- challenge conventional accounts that attribute exclusion
solely to prejudice or lack of information. This innovative work
clearly links sexuality-based immigration exclusion to a dominant
nationalism premised on sexual, gender, racial, and class
hierarchies.
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