Transgender Refugees and the Imagined South Africa

B Camminga is Postdoctoral Fellow at the African Centre for Migration and Society at Wits University, Johannesburg, South Africa. Their research interests include: transgender rights, migration, asylum and diasporas; necropolitics, notions of privacy & the bureaucratisation of sex/gender; and the history of ‘trans phenomena’ in South Africa.

• 1. Introduction: Trans Travels and Trans Trajectories.- 2. The Echo of the ‘Knowing Subject’: Trans Methodologies in South Africa.- 3. The Emergence of a Discourse of Transgender in South Africa.- 4. The Politics and Limits of Transgender in South Africa.- 5. Shifting Borderlands and Becoming a Gender Refugee.- 6. Of Categories and Queues and Structural Realities.- 7. Finding Community, Finding Rights: The Common Sense Paradox.- 8. “The Journey does not end. It’s a life time journey”.