" East African Queer and Trans Displacements offers a critical and accessible analysis of international refugee policies when they confront national laws, regional transnational relationships, Christian fundamentalism, and climate change. Through an intimate portrait of asylum seekers' lives, the book invites scholars and practitioners to expand their scope of analysis and develop new and better supportive strategies for LGBTQI Africans." -- Anima Adjepong, University of Cincinnati, USA " East African Queer and Trans Displacements is not just rigorous scholarship - it is testimony, archive, and act of resistance. This volume offers empirically rich analyses on displacement, belonging, protection, and everyday lives in exile, centering lived experiences of queer and trans people. At a time of increasingly dangerous conditions, this powerful book is an urgent and necessary contribution." -- Ulrike Krause, University of Münster, Germany "Traversing the local to the national and the global, much like the journeying people whose stories are told within its pages, East African Queer and Trans Displacements capaciously and ambitiously fills a void in the scholarship on African migrations. By spotlighting the East African subregion, this methodologically diverse and theoretically illuminating book avoids the pitfalls of overgeneralization, while fulfilling the promise of specificity. It provides us the benefit of nuanced and highly contextualized dynamics of queer migration, teaching us larger lessons about displacement, emplacement, borders, identities, home, and the African condition.

" -- Olajumoke Yacob-Haliso, Brandeis University, USA " East African Queer and Trans Displacements is an insightful testament to the resilience, creativity, and imagination of those who live at the margins of nationhood, gender, and belonging. Through personal narratives, incisive analysis, and creative writing, this book documents how queer and trans persons navigate displacement not only geographically, but socially and spiritually. Doing so, it offers a compelling portrait of queer fugitivity, not merely as a condition of exile but as a mode of being that resists erasure and asserts life beyond normative borders." -- Adriaan van Klinken, University of Leeds, UK "This volume is nothing short of brilliant. It makes canonical contributions to the emergent field of the study of queer and trans displacement specifically, but also to broader multidisciplinary efforts seeking to sharpen scholarly conceptualization of displacement, its governance and its resistance. The volume illuminates the conditions of LGBTQI displacement and does so with close attention to the worldmaking agency of queer and trans refugees under conditions often tailored to erase their existence. Its contributions are many-challenging conventional portrayals, while nuancing the conceptualization of displacement, including to accommodate different practices of self-identification of those forcibly moved or immobilized. This is essential reading for anyone grappling with the meaning and reality of international borders and migration because of how it carefully maps the different ways of knowing, wielding and contesting borders among queer and trans displaced persons and communities in East Africa.

" -- E. Tendayi Achiume, Stanford University, USA, and University of Pretoria, South Africa.