Sabiha Allouche, ‘(Dis)-Intersecting Intersectionality in the Time of Queer Syrian-Refugee-ness in Lebanon’, 2017 Kohl 3.1: pp. 59-77 Abstract This paper heeds Jasbir Puar’s call to supplement an intersectional analysis with an exercise of assemblage when examining identity politics. It argues that asylum organizations’ unwillingness to account for the interplay between the receiving state (in this … Read more
Entry type: Literature
Sabine Jansen and Thomas Spijkerboer, ‘Fleeing Homophobia: Asylum Claims Related to Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity in Europe’, September 2011, COC Nederland / Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
J. Millbank, ‘The Right of Lesbians and Gay Men to Live Freely, Openly and on Equal Terms is Not Bad Law: A Reply to Hathaway and Pobjoy’, 44 New York University Journal of International Law and Politics 497, 515 (2012)
Lee and Brotman, ‘Identity, Refugeeness, Belonging: Experiences of Sexual Minority Refugees in Canada’, 2011, Canadian Review of Sociology 48 (3): 241–274 Abstract Cet article explore les résultats d’un projet de recherche communautaire qualitatif sur les expériences intersectionnelles des réfugiés minorités sexuelles vivant à Montréal et Toronto. Menée entre 2007 à 2010, cette étude a examiné … Read more
Deniz Akin, ‘Queer asylum seekers: translating sexuality in Norway’, in Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 2017, 3, 458-474 Abstract This paper focuses on the burden of proof that queer asylum seekers encounter in Norway and how they tackle it. It is argued that queer asylum seekers translate their sexuality, sometimes strategically, to become readable … Read more
Lisa Riedel und Gerald Schneider, ‘Dezentraler Asylvollzug diskriminiert: Anerkennungsquoten von Flüchtlingen im bundesdeutschen Vergleich, 2010-2015’, PVS, 58. Jg., 1/2017, S. 21-48, DOI: 10.5771/0032-3470-2017-1-21.
Calogero Giametta, The Sexual Politics of Asylum: Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity in the UK Asylum System, Routledge, 2017 ‘The Sexual Politics of Asylum’ by Calogero Giametta (Routledge, 2017) emerges from a 2 year long ethnography, which explores the experiences of 60 gender and sexual minority refugees in the UK. Bringing previously unheard stories … Read more
Paul Johnson, ‘M.E. v Sweden – European Court of Human Rights endorses expulsion of a gay man to a country that criminalises homosexuality’, ECHR Sexual Orientation Blog, 28 June 2014
Nuno Ferreira, ‘Portuguese Refugee Law in the European Context: The Case of Sexuality-Based Claims’, 2015 International Journal of Refugee Law 27 (3): 411-432. doi: 10.1093/ijrl/eev032