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This essay explores the notion that bisexuality and contemporary bisexual political movements both align and trouble canons of queer theories of sexuality and gender. This project provides an historical review and assessment of recent bisexual theorizing to highlight key themes in its evolution as well as a discussion of how these themes have shaped the relationship of bisexuality and queer theory. Drawing on this assessment and a wider discussion of GLBT scholarship, we invite critical inquiry regarding the implications of bisexual theorizing on queer theory and vice versa. We address questions of bisexual epistemologies, its discursive roles within queer theory, and its impact on queer politics and organizing. Noting bisexuality's absence in much of this research and scholarship, we suggest these projects have been limited in their ability to fully and effectively address sexual subjectivity both in theory and in its everyday lived experience, doi: 10.1300/J082v52n01_07 KEYWORDS. Bisexual activism, bisexual epistemology, bisexuality, queer theory, sexuality

As information and communication technologies (ICTs) proliferate worldwide, their use and importance increases correspondingly. (1) Likewise, the number of development programs designed to address the gaps between the world's information-rich [...]

This survey paper discusses the three-dimensional image processing challenges posed by present and future immersive telecommunications, especially immersive video conferencing and television. We introduce the concepts of presence, immersion, and co-presence and discuss their relation to virtual collaborative environments in the context of communications. Several examples are used to illustrate the current state of the art. We highlight the crucial need of real-time, highly realistic video with adaptive view-point for future immersive communications and identify calibration, multiple-view analysis, tracking, and view synthesis as the fundamental image-processing modules addressing such a need. For each topic, we sketch the basic problem and representative solutions from the image processing literature. Index Terms--Computer vision, immersive communications, three-dimensional (3-D) image processing, three-dimensional television (3-D-TV), videoconferencing.

Francesco Isgro (*) Just when a consensus in favor of a large scale amnesty program for migrants who are illegally in the United States, and for the establishment of a [...]

Calling for a national effort to establish a New Americanization Movement, the bipartisan U.S. Commission on Immigration Reform, also known as the Jordan Commission, released its final report to Congress [...]

RULINGS FROM THE FEDERAL COURTS Court Grants Attorneys' Fees After Finding That Failure of Immigration Judge (IJ) to Advise Alien of Opportunity to Designate Country of Deportation Constituted Reversible Error [...]

A time-marching algorithm is proposed for designing turbomachine blades with high aerodynamic efficiency. The algorithm uses a three-dimensional inverse methodology to take into account the effect of the circumferential mass-averaged tangential velocity on the aerodynamic performance of the blade geometry. Its applicability is validated in the design of a compressor blade in the subsonic-flow regime.

Rulings from the Federal Courts In a recent article in The Recorder, the San Francisco legal newspaper that reports extensively on immigration matters, Steve Albert wrote about the 'Ninth Circuit [...]

The last term of the Supreme Court did not bode well for aliens' rights. Unlike the Court's decision in the SAW case, which made it easier for aliens to get [...]

Francesco Isgro * President Bush's announcement on June 6, 2002, to create a permanent Cabinet-level Department of Homeland Security, has catapulted the future of the beleaguered Immigration and Naturalization Service [...]

Francesco Isgro * The immigration agencies within the Department of Justice are being reorganized as part of a restructuring plan first announced by Attorney General Ashcroft early in November 2001. [...]

On January 5, 1999, Attorney General Janet Reno invoked her authority under INA § 244 to extend Temporary Protected Status (TPS) to nationals of Honduras and Nicaragua who have resided [...]

A person may become a citizen of the United States by either acquiring citizenship at birth or by affirmatively applying for naturalization. The Fourteenth Amendment of the United States Constitution [...]

On July 10, 1997, the Attorney General, Janet Reno, announced several actions that the Clinton Administration was taking to 'mitigate the harsh effects' of the Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility [...]

On April 1, 1997, as most of the provisions of the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996 (IIRIRA) became effective, another chapter in the history of our [...]

Francesco Isgro(1) PENDING LITIGATION The Haitian Interdiction Litigation In this class action plaintiffs challenge the interdiction of Haitian migrants on the high seas and the Government's refusal to admit more [...]

Francesco Isgro [*] Finding that the Mexican government is unable or unwilling 'to control the abusive behavior of domestic violence perpetrators,' the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals recently held in [...]

Francesco Isgro [*] On December 6, 2000, the Attorney General published the final regulations implementing the changes made to the asylum statute by the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility [...]

Francesco Isgro [*] The Department of State recently announced the registration period for the diversity immigrant visa program, commonly referred to as the 'visa lottery' for Fiscal Year 2002. The [...]

Sister Jean Marshall, a Sparkill Dominican, recently left her native Bronx to travel to Washington, where she was praised by President Clinton as she received the Eleanor Roosevelt Human Rights [...]

Francesco Isgro [*] The 1996 immigration reforms, namely the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996 ('AEDPA' and the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996 ('IIRIRA'), [...]

The laws governing asylum continue to he the subject of intense litigation both at the administrative level and in the federal courts. Subsequent to the 1997 landmark Kasinga decision where [...]

Refugees and immigrants who flee to the United States seeking a better life nearly always face unexpected difficulties. Some never adjust to their new lives, often feeling as if they [...]

The United States recently fulfilled its obligations under Article 3 of the United Nations Convention Against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman, or Degrading Treatment or Punishment, by publishing interim regulations [...]

On October 21, 1998, President Clinton signed into law the Omnibus Budget Bill, which contained a number of important immigration provisions, including amnesty for Haitians, an increase in the admission [...]

Out of Ireland, a documentary about the history of Irish immigration to the United States, is a nearly two-hour film made for broadcast on PBS and for presentation at the [...]

Since a picture is worth a thousand words, the more-than 100 spellbinding photographs in this coffee-table book tell thousands of stories. From women breaking clods with spades in the potato [...]

The Eleventh Circuit in a sweeping opinion, rejected all claims filed against the government by Cubans and Haitians who have been provided safe haven in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and in [...]

Timothy E. Wirth, 54, a former six-term Democratic Congressman and Senator from Colorado, is President Clinton's point man on a slew of international issues. As Undersecretary of State for Global [...]

On a recent fall day, the Coast Guard responded to a distress signal from a fishing trawler off the coast of North Carolina and discovered 150 people crowded in the [...]