Illinois professor’s book shows how ‘lawful fictions’ are used to manage immigration, citizenship

“CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — José A. de la Garza Valenzuela, a University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign professor of Latina/Latino Studies, looks at the experiences of queer migrants, and at how immigration practices shape particular fictions about them, in his new book “Queer in a Legal Sense: Brown Citizenship and Other Lawful Fictions.” The book combines literary and […]

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