Queer and Trans African Mobilities

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).

[The] work positions itself as a corrective intervention to epistemic gaps and discursive omissions that shape research in the field of migration, particularly in the context of queer lived realities.

• Introduction1.ATTRIBUTION ORDER? – Framing African Queer and Trans Mobilities: Absences, Presences and ChallengesComplicating Migration Narratives2.Yara Ahmed – Labyrinthine Wanderings: Queering Mobility in Impossible Geographies3.John Marnell – Telling a Different Story: On the Politics of Representing African LGBTQ Migrants, Refugees and Asylum Seekers4.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 Challenges5.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 Transnational8.Godfried Asante – ‘Where is Home?’ Negotiating Comm(unity) and Un/Belonging Among Queer African Migrants on Facebook9.B Camminga – What is Private about ‘Private Parts’? On Navigating the Violence of the Digital African Trans Refugee Archive10.Gonca Sahin – Ties that Matter: Queer Ways of Surviving a Transit CountryBordering in Action: Identity, Belonging and Wellbeing11.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 Kenya12.Verena Hucke – Differential Movements: Lesbian Migrant Women’s Encounters with, and Negotiations of, South Africa’s Border Regime13.Florent Chossière – Debunking the Liberation Narrative: Rethinking Queer Migration and Asylum to France