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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.
Contents
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
