Nathian Shae Rodriguez, ‘San Francisco’s queer diaspora and the gay Middle Eastern refugee/asylee’, 2017 JOMEC Journal, 11, 111–126 Abstract In recent years, millions of refugees have migrated across the globe fleeing persecution, in search of better lives. Among these refugees are lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and intersex (LGBTI) individuals who are escaping maltreatment for their … Read more

Fadi Saleh, ‘Transgender as a Humanitarian Category: The Case of Syrian Queer and Gender-Variant Refugees in Turkey’, 2020 TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly 7 (1): 37–55 Abstract In this article, the author foregrounds transgender as a useful category of analysis to shed light on the issue of gender variance and its articulations within the encounter between … Read more

Hadriel G. S. Theodoro and Denise Cogo, ‘LGBTQI+ Immigrants and Refugees in the City of São Paulo: Uses of Icts in a South-South Mobility Context’, Revue française des sciences de l’information et de la communication, 17, 2019 Abstract L’objectif de ce travail est d’analyser comment les utilisations et la consommation des technologies de l’information et … Read more

Connie Oxford, ‘Queer asylum: Policies and responses to sexual orientation and transgendered persecution’, in Marlou Schrover and Deirdre M. Moloney, ‘Gender, migration and categorisation: Making distinctions between migrants in Western countries, 1945-2010’, Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press B.V., 2013, pp. 127-149 (IMISCOE Research) Abstract This chapter examines US asylum laws (both legislative and case law) and … Read more

Andrew DJ Shield, ‘New in Town: Gay Immigrants and Geosocial Dating Apps’, in Alexander Dhoest, Lukasz Szulc and Bart Eeckhout (eds.), LGBTQs, Media, and Culture in Europe, London: Routledge, 2017, 244-261

Andrew DJ Shield, ‘Immigrants on Grindr: Race, Sexuality and Belonging Online’, Palgrave, 2019 Abstract This book examines the role of hook-up apps in the lives of gay, bi, trans, and queer immigrants and refugees, and how the online culture of these platforms promotes belonging or exclusion. Within the context of the so-called European refugee crisis, … Read more

Robert Lidstone, ‘Refugee Queerings: Sexuality, Identity and Place in Canadian Refugee Determination’, thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in the Department of Geography, Simon Fraser University, Spring 2006 Abstract Over the past decade, the Immigration and Refugee Board (IRB) of Canada has granted asylum to several … Read more

Sharif, Raihan, ‘White Gaze Saving Brown Queers: Homonationalism Meets Imperialist Islamophobia’, Limina, Volume 21.1, 1-19, 2015 Abstract In asylum cases, some western countries use global gay discourses and teleological developmental narratives to (mis)recognise non-Western queerness. This paper investigates a number of queer asylum cases to explain how the set conditions for a queer asylum status … Read more

Samantha K. Arnold, ‘Identity and the Sexual Minority Refugee: A Discussion of Conceptions and Preconceptions in the United Kingdom and Ireland’, 20(3) Human Rights Brief, 2013

Claerwen O’hara, ‘The gap between immutability and perceptibility: Issues experienced by sexual minority asylum seekers in the context of the “membership of a particular social group” ground’, 2013 Abstract: Despite the persecution of sexual minorities being a widely-recognised ground for claiming asylum, this category of asylum seekers still experience a plethora of problems. This is … Read more