%0 Journal Article
%T ¡°Gender Refugees¡± in South Africa: The ¡°Common
%A B Camminga
%J Africa Spectrum
%@ 1868-6869
%D 2018
%R 10.1177/000203971805300105
%X South Africa is the only country on the African continent that constitutionally protects transgender asylum seekers. In light of this, it has seen a marked rise in the emergence of this category of person within the asylum system. Drawing on research carried out between 2012 and 2015, I argue that transgender-identified refugees or ¡°gender refugees¡± from Africa, living in South Africa, rather than accessing refuge continue to experience significant hindrances to their survival comparable with the persecution experienced in their countries of origin. I argue this is in part due to the nature of their asylum claim in relation to gender as a wider system of ¡°common-sense¡± dichotomous administration, something which remains relatively constant across countries of origin and refugee-receiving countries. Rather than being protected gender refugees, because they are read as violating the rules of normative gender, they find themselves paradoxically with rights, but unable to access them
%K South Africa
%K transgender
%K gender identity
%K migration
%K refugee and asylum
%K S£¿dafrika
%K Transgender
%K Geschlechtsidentit£¿t
%K Migration
%K Fl£¿chtling und Asyl
%U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/000203971805300105