John Marnell is a postdoctoral researcher at the African Centre for Migration Society. He is the author of Seeking Sanctuary: Stories of Sexuality, Faith and Migration (Wits University Press, 2021) and the co-editor of East Africa Queer and Trans Displacements (Bloomsbury Academic, 2026) and Queer and Trans African Mobilities: Migration, Asylum and Diaspora (Zed Books, 2021), which won the 2023 ASR Best Africa-focused Anthology or Edited Collection Prize. John is the co-convenor of the African LGBTQI+ Migration Research Network (ALMN).
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John Marnell
Postdoctoral Fellow