Transgender Refugees and the Imagined South Africa: Bodies Over Borders and Borders Over Bodies

by B Camminga

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3319926683
• ISBN13: 9783319926681
• Release Date: November 2018
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 301 Pages
• Weight: 1.17 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.8" x 8.3"