Queer and Trans African Mobilities (eBook, PDF)

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

• Format: PDF

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 eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Juni 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780755639014
• Artikelnr.: 63724747

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