Queer and Trans African Mobilities (eBook, ePUB)

Migration, Asylum and Diaspora
Redaktion: Camminga, B.; Marnell, John

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Winner, ASR Best Africa-Focused Edited Collection by the African Studies Review

Recent years have seen increased scholarly and media interest in the cross-border movements of LGBT persons, particularly those seeking protection in the Global North . While this has helped focus attention on the plight of individuals fleeing homophobic or transphobic persecution, it has also reinvigorated racist tropes about the Global South.

In the case of Africa, the expansion of anti-LGBT laws and the prevalence of hetero-patriarchal discourses are regularly cited as evidence of an inescapable savagery. The figure of the LGBT refugee - often portrayed as helplessly awaiting rescue - reinforces colonial notions about the continent and its peoples.

Queer and Trans African Mobilities draws on diverse case studies from the length and breadth of Africa, offering the first in-depth investigation of LGBT migration on and from the continent. The collection provides new insights into the drivers and impacts of displacement linked to sexual orientation or gender identity and challenges notions about why LGBT Africans move, where they are going and what they experience along the way.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Juni 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780755639007
• Artikelnr.: 63725407

Autorenporträt

B Camminga is a postdoctoral fellow at the African Centre for Migration & Society, University of the Witwatersrand. Their work considers the interrelationship between the conceptual journeying of the term 'transgender' from the Global North and the physical embodied journeying of African transgender asylum seekers globally. They are the author of Transgender Refugees and the Imagined South Africa (2019). John Marnell is a researcher and PhD candidate at the African Centre for Migration and Society, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa. He is the author of Seeking Sanctuary: Stories of Sexuality, Faith and Migration (2021).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 1.ATTRIBUTION ORDER? - Framing African Queer and Trans
Mobilities: Absences, Presences and Challenges Complicating Migration
Narratives 2.Yara Ahmed - Labyrinthine Wanderings: Queering Mobility in
Impossible Geographies 3.John Marnell - Telling a Different Story: On the
Politics of Representing African LGBTQ Migrants, Refugees and Asylum
Seekers 4.Caio Simões de Araújo - Along the Pink Corridor: Histories of
Queer Mobility Between Maputo and Johannesburg (Ca. 1900-2020) Barriers to
Protection: Ethical, Procedural and Legal Challenges 5.Agathe Menetrier -
An Ethical Dilemma: When Research becomes 'Expert Testimony' 6.Marien
Gouyon - 'Sheep in a Pen': How the Externalisation of EU Borders Impacts
the Lives of Gay Refugees in Morocco 7.Charlotte Walker-Said - Homophobia
as Public Violence: Politics, Religion, Identity and Rights in the Lives of
Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual Asylum Seekers from Cameroon The Digital and the
Transnational 8.Godfried Asante - 'Where is Home?' Negotiating Comm(unity)
and Un/Belonging Among Queer African Migrants on Facebook 9.B Camminga -
What is Private about 'Private Parts'? On Navigating the Violence of the
Digital African Trans Refugee Archive 10.Gonca Sahin - Ties that Matter:
Queer Ways of Surviving a Transit Country Bordering in Action: Identity,
Belonging and Wellbeing 11.Emanuel Munyarukumbuzi, Margaret Jjuuko and
James Maingi Gathatwa - 'Kindness is a Distant and Elusive Reality':
Charting the Impacts of Discrimination on the Mental and Sexual Wellbeing
of LGBT Refugee Youth in Kenya 12.Verena Hucke - Differential Movements:
Lesbian Migrant Women's Encounters with, and Negotiations of, South
Africa's Border Regime 13.Florent Chossière - Debunking the Liberation
Narrative: Rethinking Queer Migration and Asylum to France