B Camminga

Journal Articles

• ‘Competing marginalities and precarious politics: a South African case study of NGO representation of transgender refugees‘. Gender, Place and Culture (2023)
• With Susannah Hermaszewska, Angela Sweeney, Riley Botelle, Kate Elliott, and Jacqueline Sin. ‘Lived Experiences of Transgender Forced Migrants and Their Mental Health Outcomes: Systematic Review and Meta-Ethnography‘. BJPsych Open (2022)
• With Noah Lubinsky. ‘’Your boy is a boiii’: Capturing the consumption of trans joy in the form of synthetic testosterone‘. Consumption Markets and Culture (2022)
• ‘LGBTQI+ and Nowhere to go: The Makings of an African Refugee Population without Refuge‘. Journal of Africa Security (2021)
• ‘Towards a Trans Politics of Post-Coloniality‘. Critical Studies on Security (2021)
• ‘One for one and all for one? Trans access to legal gender recognition in Botswana‘. International Journal of Gender, Sexuality and Law (2020)
• ‘Disregard and Danger: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and the voices of trans (and cis) African feminists‘. The Sociological Review (2020)
• ‘Digital borders, diasporic flows and the Nigerian transgender beauty queen who would not be denied‘. Gender Questions (2020)
• ‘‘The Stigma of Western Words’: Asylum Law, Transgender Identity and Sexual Orientation in South Africa‘. Global Discourse (2018)
• ‘Gender Refugees’ in South Africa – The ‘Common Sense’ Paradox’. Africa Spectrum (2018)
• ‘Shifting Borderlands – (Trans) ‘Gender Refugees’ moving to and through an Imagined South Africa‘. Tijdschrift Voor Genderstudies (2017)
• ‘Am I Cait? Am I Abba? From MultiChoice to No Choice – Nollywood Representations of Transgender Identity‘. Global Humanities (2017)
• ‘Catch and Release: Transgender Migrants and the Opposite of Deportation in South Africa‘. Lo Squaderno: Explorations in Space and Society (2017)
• ‘Categories and Queues: The Structural Realities of Gender and the South Africa Asylum System‘. Transgender Studies Quarterly (2017)
• ‘Where’s your Umbrella? Decolonialism and Transgender Studies in South Africa‘. Postamble (2017)
• With Louise Vincent. ‘Putting the ‘T’ into South African Human Rights: Transsexuality in the Post-Apartheid Order‘. Sexualities (2009)

Book Chapters

• ‘What’s in a name and other archives of forgetting‘. In Aimee Soudien (ed), Lesser Violence (Johannesburg: Wits University Press, 2022)
• ‘Framing Queer and Trans African Mobilities: Absences, Presences and Challenges’. In B Camminga & John Marnell (eds), Queer and Trans African Mobilities: Migration, Diaspora and Asylum (London: ZED, 2022)
• ‘What is private about ‘private parts’? On navigating the violence of the digital African trans refugee archive‘. In B Camminga & John Marnell (eds), Queer and Trans African Mobilities: Migration, Diaspora and Asylum (London: ZED, 2022)
• ‘Merely Revealing: Transgender People and the Shift from ‘MSM’ to ‘Key Populations’ in HIV/AIDS Programming in Africa‘ with Kamau Wairuri. In SJ Cooper-Knock and Duduzile Ndlovu (eds), Liberating Comparisons? Reconsidering Comparative Approaches (York: York Tree Publications, 2021)
• ‘‘Go Fund Me’: LGBTI asylum seekers in Kakuma Refugee Camp, Kenya‘. In Christine M. Jacobson, Mary-Anne Karlsen and Shahram Khosravi (eds) Waitinghood’: Unpacking the temporalities of waiting and irregular migration (London: Routledge, 2021)
• ‘Marooned: Transgender Asylum Seekers in Johannesburg‘. In Nicky Falkoff and Cobus Van Staden (eds), Anxious in Joburg: The inner lives of a global South city (Joburg: Wits University Press, 2020)
• ‘Encamped within a camp: transgender refugees and tensions of visibility in Kakuma, Kenya’. In Jesper Bjarnesen and Simon Turner (eds), Invisible Displacements in African Transnational Spaces (UK: Zed, 2020 )
• ‘Feminism Is…For Every Single Body‘. In Jen Thorpe (ed) Feminism Is… (Johannesburg: Kwela, 2018)
• ‘‘Masquerading as a Woman’: The South African Disguises Act & the Ghosts of Apartheid Surveillance‘.In Robert Heynen and Emily Van der (eds), Making Surveillance States: Transnational Histories (University of Toronto Press, 2019)
• ‘Shifting in the City: Being and Longing in Cape Town‘. In zethu Matebeni and B Camminga (eds), Beyond the Mountain: Queer Life in Africa’s ‘Gay Capital’ (Pretoria: Unisa, 2019)

Reports

• Vulnerability Amplified: Assessing the Needs of LGBT Refugees in South Africa with Thea de Gruchy, John Marnell, Masi Zhakata, Thomars Shamuyarira and Anold Mulaisho (Johannesburg: ALMN, 2022)
• LGBTI+ Asylum Seekers in South Africa: A Review of Refugee Status Denials Involving Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity with Mandivavarira Mudarikwa, Miriam Gleckman-Krut, Amy-Leigh Payne and John Marnell (Cape Town: Women’s Legal Centre, 2021)
• Keeping the Promise of Equality and Dignity for All: A Position Paper on Legal Gender Recognition in South Africa with Liberty Matthyse, Amy-Leigh Payne, Mandivavarira Mudarikwa, Estian Smit and Ricardo Rossouw (Cape Town: Gender DynamiX, 2020)
• Southern African Transgender Models of Litigation, Policy Work and Conceptual Frameworks of Change (Joburg: The Other Foundation, 2019)