Why read Transgender Refugees and the Imagined South Africa?

Book cover of Transgender Refugees and the Imagined South Africa: Bodies Over Borders and Borders Over Bodies

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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…

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1 author picked Transgender Refugees and the Imagined South Africa as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

Neil Crawford

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This book is a fascinating and well-written book on ‘gender refugees’ –people who make their claim for asylum based on their gender identity.

The book illuminates these refugees’ unique and challenging journeys as gender refugees, from their reasons for leaving their countries, the various violences in the asylum system, the South Africa they imagined, and the South Africa they experienced.

The book de facto deals with urban refugees. South Africa does not practice a system of encampment, while nearly all the participants in the research reside in Cape Town and Johannesburg.

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