{"id":1061,"date":"2016-01-07T12:46:10","date_gmt":"2016-01-07T11:46:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/imer.w.uib.no\/?p=1061"},"modified":"2016-01-07T12:46:10","modified_gmt":"2016-01-07T11:46:10","slug":"imer-lunch-seminar-queering-mobility-transgendered-internal-migrants-and-their-experience-of-transition-in-south-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/imer.w.uib.no\/?p=1061","title":{"rendered":"IMER lunch seminar: Queering mobility: transgendered internal migrants and their experience of \u201ctransition\u201d in South Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By\u00a0\u00a0Nadzeya Husakouskaya (SKOK, UiB):<\/p>\n<p><strong>NB! NEW VENUE!!<\/strong> TUESDAY 19.01.2016, 1200-1330 @ DEPT. OF SOCIOLOGY, ROSENBERGGT. 39, GROUND FLOOR<\/p>\n<p>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 paper 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.<\/p>\n<p>The paper explores their experiences of migration focusing on analysis of their transition \u00ad 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) \u00ad and ways they negotiate belonging.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-1062 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/imer.w.uib.no\/files\/2016\/01\/Nadzeya.jpg\" alt=\"Nadzeya\" width=\"110\" height=\"112\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Nadzeya Husakouskaya is a PhD Candidate, Centre for Women\u2019s and Gender Research (SKOK), University of Bergen, Norway. She holds a European master from 2013 in Migration and Intercultural relations (joint degree).<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Welcome! A light lunch will be served.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By\u00a0\u00a0Nadzeya Husakouskaya (SKOK, UiB): NB! NEW VENUE!! TUESDAY 19.01.2016, 1200-1330 @ DEPT. OF SOCIOLOGY, ROSENBERGGT. 39, GROUND FLOOR 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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3077,"featured_media":1063,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/imer.w.uib.no\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1061","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/imer.w.uib.no\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/imer.w.uib.no\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imer.w.uib.no\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3077"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imer.w.uib.no\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1061"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/imer.w.uib.no\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1061\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1064,"href":"https:\/\/imer.w.uib.no\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1061\/revisions\/1064"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imer.w.uib.no\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1063"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/imer.w.uib.no\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imer.w.uib.no\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imer.w.uib.no\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}