The book Queer and Trans African Mobilities: Migration, Asylum, and Diaspora, published by Bloomsbury in 2022, has won the 2023 ASR Prize for Best Africa-focused Anthology or Edited Collection.

This award recognizes the contribution of both editors and authors. The award-winning book also includes a study by our Women’s Studies PhD student Gonca Şahin, titled “Ties that Matter: Queer Ways of Surviving a Transit Country”, in which she examines the solidarity networks of LGBTI+ refugees residing in Turkey.

The 2023 ASR Award for Best Africa-focused Anthology or Edited Collection, sponsored by Cambridge University Press, recognizes the editors and contributors of an anthology of original scholarship that advances African studies in new theoretical and/or methodological directions, is coherent in structure, and interdisciplinary in nature.

The award evaluates the contributors as a whole, as well as the editor(s). In making its selection, the award committee pays particular attention to the significance, originality, quality of the paper and its contribution to advancing debate in the field of African studies.

For detailed information see:

Queer and Trans African Mobilities: Migration, Asylum, and Diaspora (Bloomsbury, 2022).

https://africanstudies.org/news/african-studies-review-2023-prize-winners

https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/queer-and-trans-african-mobilities-9780755638994