Source: Academic
Deborah Faudoa Rodríguez, ‘An intersectional approach to LGBTIQ+ Iranian refugees in the United Kingdom: A blog post’, NQIfFM, Brighton, 2022 Excerpt In the present text I will briefly contextualize the current situation LGBTIQ+ people face in Iran, as well as the difficult process they go through when trying to apply for refugee status in Europe. … Read more
Karolína Tajovská, ‘Surviving Trauma: Queer Lives in Iran and the Psychological Impact of Forced Migration’, NQIfFM, Brighton, 2025 Excerpt Existing research consistently demonstrates significant disparities in mental health between queer and heterosexual youth, with queer individuals experiencing markedly higher rates of suicidality and depressive symptoms (Kabir & Brinsworth, 2021; Kelleher, 2009; Marshal et al., 2011; … Read more
Moira Dustin, Nuno Ferreira, Kamran Matin, Mehran Rezaei-Toroghi, and Isabel Soloaga, ‘The praxis of research about queer migrant lives: an Iranian case study’, 4 February 2025 Excerpt Does an academic, theoretically framed, multidisciplinary research project have anything to contribute to migration policy and practice in the context of discrimination and violence based on sexual orientation, … Read more
NQIfFM submission to the Call for Input by the UN Independent Expert on Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity on ‘Protection against violence and discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity in relation to forced displacement’, 2025 1. This submission is based on research from the project ‘Negotiating Queer Identities Following Forced Migration (NQIfFM): A … Read more
S. Shakhsari, ‘The queer time of death: Temporality, geopolitics, and refugee rights’, 2014 Sexualities, 17(8), 998-1015 Abstract Using the ethnographic data from interviews with the Iranian queer and transgender refugee applicants in Turkey, the UNHCR, and NGOs in Istanbul, Ankara, Denizli, Kayseri, and Nevsehir, I explore the way that refugee rights as a temporally and … Read more
Shirin Heidari, Ryan Whitacre, Jinan Usta, Meric Caglar, Thanasis Tyrovolas, Aesha Rajan, Monica A Onyango, ‘Liminality and transactional sex among queer refugees: Insights from Lebanon, Turkey, Greece, and Switzerland’, Journal of Refugee Studies, 2024 Abstract People of diverse sexual orientations, gender identities, and expressions who have been forcibly displaced (hereafter referred to as ‘queer refugees’) … Read more
Gonca Șahin, ‘Everyday Struggles of Queer Refugees for Homemaking’, 6(1) Movements 2021, 42-63 Abstract This article explores the meaning of home and homemaking in conditions of temporary displacement. Drawing on Catharine Brun and Anita Fábos’ conceptual framework of the constellation of HOME-Home-home, my analysis focuses on the experiences of queer refugees who temporarily reside in … Read more
Öykü Aytaçoğlu, ‘L’implication du chercheur dans le travail de terrain: Une étude auprès des exilé·e·s queer à Istanbul’, in Monia Lacheb and Constance de Gourcy (eds.), Terrains sensibles au Maghreb et au-delà: Acteurs, chercheurs et affects, 2022, pp. 141-162 Key words: Turkey, Ethnographic fieldwork, Magreb, Queer Migration Studies
Öykü Aytacoglu, ‘A migration journey between vulnerability and agency: the case of queer exiles in Istanbul’, in Jane Freedman, Alice Latouche, Adelina Miranda, Nina Sahraoui, Glenda Santana de Andrade, Elsa Tyszler (eds.), The Gender of Borders: Embodied Narratives of Migration, Violence and Agency, Routledge, 2023, pp. 119-135 (Chapter 7) Abstract This chapter discusses the migration … Read more