Rahul Rao, Third World Protest : Between Home and the World, OUP, 2010. If boundaries protect us from threats, how should we think about the boundaries of states in a world where threats to human rights emanate from both outside the state and the state itself? Arguing that attitudes towards boundaries are premised on assumptions … Read more
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Carmelo Danisi, Moira Dustin, Nuno Ferreira and Nina Held, ‘SOGICA – Case studies comparison’, updated 15 March 2018. This table maps some of the similarities and differences in SOGI asylum law and policy across our three case study countries – Germany, Italy and the UK – and at European level.
Rahul Rao, ‘Third World Protest: Between Home and the World’, Oxford Scholarship Online: September 2010, DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199560370.001.0001 Part II, 6 Queer in the Time of Terror Third World queer activists are increasingly caught between two discourses that challenge their self-assertion: first, an occasionally orientalist cosmopolitan discourse of ‘LGBT rights’ that regards such rights as a marker of modernity … Read more
United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees – Division of International Protection Services, Selected Documents Relating to Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Relevant to International Refugee Protection, October 2009
Lorenzo Bernini, ‘The ordeal for humanity: LGBTI asylum seekers in Europe facing the limits of human rights’, 2015 AG About Gender – International Journal of Gender Studies, Vol. 4, No. 7, pp. 177-189 What’s “human” in the human? What makes a living being a human being? In case of doubt, who decides whether a … Read more
James C. Hathaway and Jason Pobjoy, ‘Queer Cases Make Bad Law’, 44 New York University Journal of International Law and Politics 315, 388 (2012)
John Tobin, ‘Assessing GLBTI Refugee Claims: Using Human Rights Law to Shift the Narrative of Persecution Within Refugee Law’, 44 New York University Journal of International Law and Politics 447, 454-55 (2012)
Guglielmo Verdirame, ‘A Friendly Act of Socio-Cultural Contestation: Asylum and the Big Cultural Divide’, 44 New York University Journal of International Law and Politics 557, 570 (2012)
Dustin M. and Ferreira N., ‘Canada’s Guideline 9: improving SOGIE claims assessment?’, 2017 Forced Migration Review 56 (October), at http://www.fmreview.org/latinamerica-caribbean.html and SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3020950 Abstract Asylum seekers making claims relating to their sexual orientation and gender identity often face unfair refusal. New guidance from the Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada takes admirable steps towards improving claims assessment, and offers a model … Read more
Hana Masri, ‘A Liberated Life? Thoughts on the Paradoxical Binds of Queer Refuge’, 2017 Kohl 3.1: pp. 36-40