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
Entry type: Literature
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
Alice Edwards, ‘X, Y and Z: The “A, B, C” of Claims based on Sexual Orientation and/or Gender Identity?’, UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), International Commission of Jurists: Expert Roundtable on asylum claims based on sexual orientation or gender identity or expression, Brussels, 27 June 2014
Rachel Lewis, ‘Deportable Subjects: Lesbians and Political Asylum’, Feminist Formations, vol. 25 no. 2, 2013, pp. 174-194 Abstract This article explores how deportation as a state of emergency structures the queer migration narratives of lesbian refugees and asylum-seekers. The first part of the article discusses the ways in which the political asylum system produces queer, … Read more
Nicole LaViolette, ‘Sexual Orientation and the Refugee Determination Process: Questioning a Claimant About Their Membership in the Particular Social Group’, in S. Levy (ed.), Asylum Based on Sexual Orientation; A Resource Guide, San Francisco: IGLHRC, 1996 Abstract For many years now, gay men and lesbians have been granted asylum in Canada on the ground that … Read more
Elizabeth Connely, ‘Queer, Beyond a Reasonable Doubt: Refugee Experiences of “Passing” into “Membership of a Particular Social Group”‘, UCL Migration Research Unit Working Papers 2014/3 Abstract Sexual orientation-based asylum claims have historically been fraught with difficulties. Although considered eligible for refugee protection in a small number of countries beginning the 1990s, knowledge and acceptance of … Read more
Yvon van der Pijl, Brenda Oude Breuil, Lene Swetzer, Marilena Drymioti, M Goderie, ‘”We Do Not Matter”: Transgender Migrants/Refugees in the Dutch Asylum System’ 2018 Violence and Gender, 5 (1) 1-11 Abstract Although the Netherlands is renowned for its forerunner position in lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender/transsexual, and intersex (LGBTI) rights, this study urges one to … Read more
Mary Kapron & Nicole LaViolette, ‘Refugee Claims Based on Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity: An Annotated Bibliography’, Université d’Ottawa / University of Ottawa, June 2014 Abstract This annotated bibliography gives an account of legal and social sciences research sources related to refugee claims based on sexual orientation and gender identity. The bibliography, which focuses primarily … Read more
Shana Tabak and Rachel Levitan, ‘LGBTI Migrants in Immigration Detention: A Global Perspective’, Harvard Journal of Law and Gender, Vol. 37, No. 1, 2014 Abstract In recent years, the state practice of detaining migrants has come under close examination for the multiple ways in which detention is likely compromise the human rights of detainees. With … Read more