Queer and Trans African Mobilities: Migration, Asylum and Diaspora

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