Swetha Sridharan, ‘The Difficulties of U.S. Asylum Claims Based on Sexual Orientation’, Migration Policy Institute, 2008 Abstract Since 1998, the United States has processed an average of 46,000 asylum applications each year, according to estimates from the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. Winning asylum in this country, however, is not an easy task. On … Read more
Entry type: Literature
Fernanda Estevão Pollini, ‘The Difficult Path towards the Recognition of Refugee Status based on Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity: Analysing Brazil and the United Kingdom’, ICL Journal, 2014 Abstract In some countries, LGBT people suffer oppression. They are at risk of suffering death penalty. Thus, the Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees (1951) is … Read more
Victor Mdluli Chikalogwe, ‘A Double Challenge: LGBTI Refugees and Asylum Seekers in South Africa’, Perspectives: Political Analysis and Commentary, Heinrich Böll Foundation, Issue 2, October 2018, 24-29 Abstract Following the end of apartheid in 1994, South Africa has seen a large influx of refugees and asylum seekers from across the continent. According to the United … Read more
Ahmed Hamila, ‘Les persécutions liées à l’orientation sexuelle : un « nouveau » motif pour octroyer le statut de réfugié en Belgique ?’, 2019 Politique et Sociétés, 38, (1), 157–177 Résumé de l’article La Belgique est l’un des premiers pays européens où l’autorité chargée du traitement des demandes d’asile, le Commissariat général aux réfugiés et … Read more
Nienke Doornbos, ‘Op verhaal komen Op verhaal komen: Institutionele communicatie in de asielprocedure’, Wolf Legal Publishers, 2006 Abstract ‘Alle werkelijkheid is fictie en alle fictie is werkelijkheid.’ Tot deze conclusie kwam een van mijn respondenten na een jarenlange omzwerving in zowel de Nederlandse als de Zweedse asielprocedure. Nadat zijn asielaanvraag de eerste keer in Nederland … Read more
Sabine Jansen and Thomas Spijkerboer, ‘Say it loud – en vlug een beetje: Homoseksuele en transgender asielzoekers, laat uit de kast komen en geloofwaardigheid’, Asiel & Migrantenrecht (9) pp. 456- 463, 2012 Abstract Sabine Jansen en Thomas Spijkerboer bespreken in een tweeluik de belangrijkste knelpunten in het Nederlandse asielbeleid voor lesbische, homoseksuele, biseksuele en transgender … Read more
Bina Fernandez, ‘“Sconfinatori” e “sconfinatrici” queer: Complicità pragmatiche, indiscrezioni e sovvertimenti’, Deportate, Esuli, Profughe (DEP) n. 38/2018 Abstract I consider queer lived experience through a focus on LGBTQIA asylum seekers while also looking towards the ways in which queering as an epistemological standpoint can be used to challenge the state-based system of the global order. … Read more
Alexandre Bongiovanni, ‘Demande d’asile au motif de l’orientation sexuelle: la CJUE fait un tout petit pas… mais dans la bonne direction’, La Revue des droits de l’homme [Online], Actualités Droits-Libertés, 2018
Adena L. Wayne, ‘Unique Identities and Vulnerabilities: The Case for Transgender Identity as a Basis for Asylum’, 102 Cornell Law Review 241 (2016) Abstract On September 3, 2015, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit suspended the deportation of a transgender Mexican woman because the Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA or Board) had … Read more
Laurynas Biekša, ‘The Refugee Qualification Problems in LGBT Asylum Cases’, Jurisprudencija / Jurisprudence 2011, 18(4), p. 1555–1565