Subject: Ethnicity/Race

European Asylum Support Office (EASO), ‘EASO Asylum Report 2020: Annual Report on the Situation of Asylum in the European Union’, EASO , 2020 See SOGICA’s input here.

Henriette Gunkel and Ben Pitcher (eds.), ‘Racism in the Closet – Interrogating Postcolonial Sexuality’, Darkmatter, issue no. 3, 2008 Table of contents Editorial: Racism in the Closet – Interrogating Postcolonial Sexuality by Henriette Gunkel and Ben Pitcher • 2 May 2008   Articles Loyal Repetitions of the Nation: Gay Assimilation and the ‘War on Terror’ … Read more

Andrew DJ Shield, Immigrants in the Sexual Revolution: Perceptions and Participation in Northwest Europe, Palgrave Macmillan, 2017 Abstract This book focuses on the latter half of the twentieth century, when much of northwest Europe grew increasingly multicultural with the arrival of foreign workers and (post-)colonial migrants, whilst simultaneously experiencing a boom in feminist and sexual … 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

UNHCR, International Protection Considerations with Regard to People Fleeing the Republic of Iraq, May 2019

European Asylum Support Office (EASO), ‘Annual report on the situation of asylum in the European Union 2017’, European Asylum Support Office, Luxembourg, 2018

Bina Fernandez, ‘“Sconfinatori” e “sconfinatrici” queer: Complicità pragmatiche, indiscrezioni e sovvertimenti’, Deportate, Esuli, Profughe (DEP) n. 38/2018 Abstract I consider queer lived experience through a focus on LGBTQIA asylum seekers while also looking towards the ways in which queering as an epistemological standpoint can be used to challenge the state-based system of the global order. … Read more

EASO – European Asylum Support Office, ‘Annual Report on the Situation of Asylum in the EU 2017’, 2018

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