Professor Eithne Luibhéid's new book, Abolitionist Intimacies: Queer and Trans Migrants Against the Deportation State

Huge congratulations to Professor Eithne Luibhéid whose new book, Abolitionist Intimacies: Queer and Trans Migrants Against the Deportation State, has been published by Duke University Press!

“Building on her record as a foremost scholar of immigration, Eithne Luibhéid offers powerful and innovative heuristics for thinking about how queer and trans migrants and their allies leverage their intimacies to resist deportation infrastructures and build abolitionist futures. Thoroughly researched, masterfully argued, and elegantly written, Abolitionist Intimacies will shift how you think about immigration regimes, but more importantly, it will change what you believe is possible for changing them.” Karma Chávez, author of The Borders of AIDS: Race, Quarantine, and Resistance

Learn more about the book and download the introduction here: https://dukeupress.edu/abolitionist-intimacies

Read Eithne’s blog post about the book here: https://dukeupress.wordpress.com/2025/08/05/qa-with-eithne-luibheid-author-of-abolitionist-intimacies/