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- Title
Queering Mobility in Urban Gauteng: Transgender Internal Migrants and Their Experiences of 'Transition' in Johannesburg and Pretoria.
- Authors
Husakouskaya, Nadzeya
- Abstract
Migration studies in post-Apartheid South Africa have maintained a strong focus on cross-border mobility while often narrowing health-related research to HIV/AIDS concerns and framing gender in woman-oriented approach with a gradually emerging area of research on migrant sex workers. This article offers to bridge certain gaps in migration research on health, internal mobility, and gender. It revolves around experiences of black unprivileged transgender internal migrants accessing medical services in the public health sector in urban Gauteng, in particular, Johannesburg and Pretoria. The article explores their experiences of migration focusing on analysis of their 'transition'-both 'gendered transition' (different medical interventions that alter/modify gender-related attributes of the body) and 'spatial transition' (diverse mobility patters, relocation, renegotiation of place of living and belonging)-and ways they negotiate belonging. The analysis outlines challenges that transgender individuals face in the public health sector and affects these challenges have on mobility of transgender South Africans. Further, the article delves into exploration of transgender internal migrants' experiences and understanding of 'migration' that arises from sense of (non)belonging and ways to negotiate dynamic subjective sense of being (or not) part of physical (and sometimes imaginary) social groups and places, such as family/home, local ('host') community, lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community, and religion/spirituality.
- Subjects
SOUTH Africa; IMMIGRANTS; INTERNAL migrants; SEX workers; TRANSGENDER communities; RENEGOTIATION; HEALTH
- Publication
Urban Forum, 2017, Vol 28, Issue 1, p91
- ISSN
1015-3802
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s12132-016-9286-8