A Glasgow Human Rights Network event
Transgender Refugees and the Imagined South Africa: Bodies over Borders and Borders over Bodies.
4.00-5.00pm, Wednesday 8 May 2019
Speaker: B Camminga, Postdoctoral Fellow, African Centre for Migration and Society, Wits University, South Africa.
Chair & Discussant: Matthew Waites, Co-Convenor of Glasgow Human Rights Network/Senior Lecturer in Sociology, University of Glasgow.
Venue: Yudowitz Seminar Room, Wolfson Medical Building, University Avenue, University of Glasgow.
B Camminga will speak on their ground-breaking book Transgender Refugees and the Imagined South Africa: Bodies over Borders and Borders over Bodies (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019). The study is the first academic research using interviews with African transgender refugees to document their voices and experiences, also providing critical analysis of their migrations from contexts across the continent to South Africa. The 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 event will comprise a presentation by B Camminga, followed by a discussion with Matthew Waites, then audience questions and discussion.
The book is published in the Global Queer Politics book series (Palgrave Macmillan).
This is a public event, all welcome. The room is wheelchair accessible. For further access requirements or other information/needs, contact Matthew Waites in advance ([log in to unmask])
Event details are on the Glasgow Human Rights Network website, Events page: https://www.gla.ac.uk/research/az/glasgowhumanrightsnetwork/events/#/transgenderrefugeesandtheimaginedsouthafricabcamminga8may2019
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Matthew Waites
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