Queer and Trans African Mobilities: Migration, Asylum and Diaspora Camminga B.
Queer and Trans African Mobilities: Migration, Asylum and Diaspora Camminga B. Recent years have seen increased scholarly and media interest in the cross-border movements of LGBT persons,…
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Queer and Trans African Mobilities: Migration, Asylum and Diaspora Camminga B.
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 . 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. 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.
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Queer and Trans Migrations