Source: Academic

Daniel Braga Nascimento, ‘Migrantes em Razão de Orientação Sexual ou Identidade de Gênero’, in XI Seminário Nacional ‘Demandas Sociais e Políticas Públicas na Sociedade Contemporânea – I Mostra Nacional de Trabalhos Científicos. Abstract O conceito de refugiado é expresso no Art. 1º Inciso I, da Lei 9.474/97 (Estatuto do Estrangeiro), definindo refugiado como todo indivíduo … Read more

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

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.

Farrah Jafari, Silencing Sexuality: LGBT Refugees and the Public-Private Divide in Iran and Turkey, PhD dissertation (supervised by Anne Betteridge and Leila Hudson), The University of Arizona, 2013 Abstract The current Islamic Republic of Iran distinguishes between homosexuals and same-sex sexual activity: the former is not recognized as an identity, while state apparatuses openly condemn … Read more

B. O’Leary, ‘“We Cannot Claim Any Particular Knowledge of the Ways of Homosexuals, Still Less of Iranian Homosexuals …”: The Particular Problems Facing Those Who Seek Asylum on the Basis of their Sexual Identity’, 2008 Feminist Legal Studies, Volume 16, Issue 1, pp 87–95 Abstract Many lesbians and gay men apply for asylum in the U.K. each … Read more

Mirja Irene Simunaniemi, ‘Exit to Exist? The Situation of LGBT Asylum Seekers in Turkey’, 2014, Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Humanities and Social Sciences, Faculty of Theology, Department of Theology.

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

Thomas Spijkerboer, ‘Gender, sexuality, asylum and European human rights’, Law and Critique (2018) 29: 221

Hana Masri, ‘A Liberated Life? Thoughts on the Paradoxical Binds of Queer Refuge’, 2017 Kohl 3.1: pp. 36-40

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