Overview
- Makes the case that ‘transgender’, as a discourse and a politics, has materialised in South Africa in particular forms due to a combination of social, political and cultural conditions peculiar to the country
- Provides the first in depth study of the lives of transgender refugees and asylum seekers from the African continent living in South Africa
- Argues that the materialisation of ‘transgender’ in South Africa, in recent years, has lead to the emergence of what can be usefully termed ‘gender refugees’–people who can make claims to refugee status, fleeing their countries of origin based on the persecution of their gender identity
Part of the book series: Global Queer Politics (GQP)
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About the author
B Camminga is Postdoctoral Fellow at the African Centre for Migration and Society at Wits University, Johannesburg, South Africa. Their research interests include: transgender rights, migration, asylum and diasporas; necropolitics, notions of privacy & the bureaucratisation of sex/gender; and the history of ‘trans phenomena’ in South Africa.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Transgender Refugees and the Imagined South Africa
Book Subtitle: Bodies Over Borders and Borders Over Bodies
Authors: B Camminga
Series Title: Global Queer Politics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-92669-8
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-92668-1Published: 12 November 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-06486-0Published: 14 December 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-92669-8Published: 01 November 2018
Series ISSN: 2569-1317
Series E-ISSN: 2569-1309
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 301
Topics: African Politics, Politics and Gender, Queer Theory, Gender and Sexuality