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Transgender Refugees and the Imagined South Africa - Bodies Over Borders and Borders Over Bodies (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2019)
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Transgender Refugees and the Imagined South Africa - Bodies Over Borders and Borders Over Bodies (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2019)
Series: Global Queer Politics
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This book tracks the conceptual journeying of the term
'transgender' from the Global North-where it originated-along with
the physical embodied journeying of transgender asylum seekers from
countries within Africa to South Africa and considers the
interrelationships between the two. The term 'transgender'
transforms as it travels, taking on meaning in relation to bodies,
national homes, institutional frameworks and imaginaries. This
study centres on the experiences and narratives of people that can
be usefully termed 'gender refugees', gathered through a series of
life story interviews. It is the argument of this book that the
departures, border crossings, arrivals and perceptions of South
Africa for gender refugees have been both enabled and constrained
by the contested meanings and politics of this emergence of
transgender. This book explores, through these narratives, the
radical constitutional-legal possibilities for 'transgender' in
South Africa, the dissonances between the possibilities of
constitutional law, and the pervasive politics/logic of binary
'sex/gender' within South African society. In doing so, this book
enriches the emergent field of Transgender Studies and challenges
some of the current dominant theoretical and political perceptions
of 'transgender'. It offers complex narratives from the African
continent regarding sex, gender, sexuality and notions of home
concerning particular geo-politically situated bodies.
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