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QUEERING MIGRATIONS TOWARDS, FROM, AND BEYOND ASIA This page intentionally left blank QUEERING MIGRATIONS TOWARDS, FROM, AND BEYOND ASIA Edited by Hugo Córdova Quero, Joseph N. Goh, and Michael Sepidoza Campos QUEERING MIGRATIONS TOWARDS, FROM, AND BEYOND ASIA Copyright © Hugo Córdova Quero, Joseph N. Goh, and Michael Sepidoza Campos, 2014. Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1st edition 2014 978-1-137-44772-2 All rights reserved. First published in 2014 by PALGRAVE MACMILLAN® in the United States— a division of St. Martin’s Press LLC, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10010. Where this book is distributed in the UK, Europe and the rest of the world, this is by Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited, registered in England, company number 785998, of Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire RG21 6XS. Palgrave Macmillan is the global academic imprint of the above companies and has companies and representatives throughout the world. Palgrave® and Macmillan® are registered trademarks in the United States, the United Kingdom, Europe and other countries. ISBN 978-1-349-49629-7 ISBN 978-1-137-44773-9 (eBook) DOI 10.1057/9781137447739 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Queering migrations towards, from, and beyond Asia / edited by Hugo Cordóva Quero, Joseph N. Goh and Michael Sepidoza Campos. pages cm Includes bibliographical references and index. 1. Gay immigrants—Asia. 2. Gays—Asia. 3. Gays—Identity. 4. Immigrants—Cultural assimilation. 5. Asia—Emigration and immigration—Social aspects. I. Quero, Hugo Córdova. II. Goh, Joseph N., 1971– III. Campos, Michael Sepidoza, 1971– HQ76.3.A78Q44 2014 306.76(cid:25)6095—dc23 2014013511 A catalogue record of the book is available from the British Library. Design by Newgen Knowledge Works (P) Ltd., Chennai, India. First edition: October 2014 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 To all Queer-Sojourners, who move to, from, and in between “promised lands.” This page intentionally left blank CONTENTS Sashay Away! The Messy and Fabulous Itineraries of Queer Migration: A Foreword ix Martin F. Manalansan IV Acknowledgments xiii Introduction: Trans/Pacific Affairs: Queer-Journeyers in Search of New Liaisons 1 Hugo Córdova Quero, Joseph N. Goh, and Michael Sepidoza Campos Part I Towards Asia 1. Should I Stay or Should I Go? Racial Sexual Preferences and Migration in Japan 21 Jamie Paquin 2. Made in Brazil? Sexuality, Intimacy, and Identity Formation among Japanese Brazilian Queer Immigrants in Japan 41 Hugo Córdova Quero 3. Desire, Nation, and Faith: A Roundtable among Emerging Queer Asian/Pacific Islander Religion Scholars 61 Michael Sepidoza Campos, Hugo Córdova Quero, Joseph N. Goh, Elizabeth Leung, Miak Siew, and Lai Shan Yip Part II From and Around Asia 4. In Search of Dreams: Narratives of Japanese Gay Men on Migration to the United States 77 Kunisuke Hirano 5. Queer Imaginings and Traveling of “Family” Across Asia 99 Romit Dasgupta viii CONTENTS 6. Transgressive Empowerment: Queering the Spiritualities of the Mak Nyahs of PT Foundation 123 Joseph N. Goh Part III Being and Believing: Asian Diaspora 7. Bring Your Own Pink Rice Cooker: Portability of the Queer API Experience 141 Jonipher Kwong 8. Straddling California and Manila in the Bathhouse: A Queer Ethnography of a Filipino American Baklâ Healthworker 157 Michael Sepidoza Campos 9. Sexy Cool Asians from Brazil: A Study of Second-Generation Japanese Brazilian Gay Men in Brazil 189 Fábio Ricardo Ribeira References 209 List of Contributors 229 Index 233 SASHAY AWAY! THE MESSY AND FABULOUS ITINERARIES OF QUEER MIGRATION: A FOREWORD Martin F. Manalansan IV In the past 20 years, we have witnessed the emergence of exemplary works on diaspora, migration, and queerness by such scholars as Gayatri Gopinath, Chandan Reddy, David Eng, Nayan Shah, and Eithne Luibhéid. This amazing trove of critical scholarship has placed migration and queer- ness under a critical light. As a way to offer and reflect on some of these trenchant ideas, I offer three vignettes culled from my ethnographic field- notes. They are glimpses, fleeting moments, and episodic histories of Asian queer migrant lives. Such fragmentary tales help frame the unstable, shifting nature of queerness, migration, and diaspora without the necessary closures, endings, and singular telos. I deploy them to help set the tone for and evoke the ethos of this wonderful volume of essays and gestures to complicate ideas of queer mobility and futurity. Vignette 1: Gender/Sexual Check Points: Queer as a Moving Target Alyssa is a Filipina transwoman who lives in New York City. When I met her in 1993, she was still going by “Alan.” She so hated the name Alan that she used to scratch the name out on her green card. She almost got into trouble when she was coming back from visiting friends in Europe. The immigration officer asked why she had mutilated an important government document. She concocted a story saying that her young nephew was the culprit. She also was sporting long hair that went beyond her shoulders. She would “butch” it up to match the green card picture by wearing a baseball cap and tucking her tresses inside it. After she was finished with the
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