Kristin Bresnahan, ‘The Board of Immigration Appeals’ New Social Visibility Test for Determining Membership of a Particular Social Group in Asylum Claims and Its Legal and Policy Implications’, Berkeley Journal of International Law 29 (2), pp 649-679, 2011 Abstract Within the area of asylum law, there has been a great deal of confusion and debate … Read more
Subject: Gender Identity
Aaron Ponce, ‘Shoring up Judicial Awareness: LGBT Refugees and the Recognition of Social Categories’, 2012 New England Journal of International and Comparative Law, Volume 18, pp 185-204 Abstract The advancement of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) rights has generally been more extensive in the European Union and its member states than the development of … Read more
Julie Bissland and Kathleen Lawand, ‘Report of the UNHCR Symposium on Gender-Based Persecution’, International Journal of Refugee Law, Special Issue, 1997, 13-31
UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), ‘Resettlement Assessment Tool: Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Intersex Refugees’, May 2019 Abstract The Resettlement Assessment Tool: Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Intersex Refugees has been developed to enhance UNHCR’s effectiveness and harmonize procedures for assessing Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Intersex (LGBTI) refugees for resettlement. Due to the … Read more
Carmela Ferrara, Orientamento Sessuale e Identità di Genere: Immigrazione e Accoglienza [Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity: Immigration and Reception], 2019
Fernanda Estevão Pollini, ‘The Difficult Path towards the Recognition of Refugee Status based on Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity: Analysing Brazil and the United Kingdom’, ICL Journal, 2014 Abstract In some countries, LGBT people suffer oppression. They are at risk of suffering death penalty. Thus, the Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees (1951) is … Read more
Sabine Jansen and Thomas Spijkerboer, ‘De draaideurkast: Homoseksuele en transgender asielzoekers, discretie en strafbaarstelling’ Asiel & Migrantenrecht (7) pp. 320- 329, 2012 Abstract Sabine Jansen en Thomas Spijkerboer bespreken in een tweeluik de belangrijkste knelpunten in het Nederlandse asielbeleid voor lesbische, homoseksuele, biseksuele en transgender asielzoekers. in dit eerste artikel: de discretie-eis kan mensen terug de … Read more
Kok Stefan, ‘Bij gebrek aan bewijs: De beoordeling van de geloofwaardigheid van het asielrelaas onder Werkinstructie’, 2014/10, Universiteit Leiden/ VluchtelingenWerk Nederland, 2016 Abstract In this report, entitled Bij gebrek aan bewijs (‘Where there is no evidence’), the decision-making process of the Dutch Immigration and Naturalization Service (IND) in the period between July 20, 2015 and … Read more
Nicole LaViolette, ‘Sexual Orientation and the Refugee Determination Process: Questioning a Claimant About Their Membership in the Particular Social Group’, University of Ottawa, 2004 Abstract For many years now, gay men and lesbians have been granted asylum in Canada on the ground that they face persecution as sexual minorities. In 1993, the Supreme Court of … Read more
Ben Vermeulen and Aleidus Woltjer, ‘Wat te geloven? Over discretie, zel nterpretatie en vervolging wegens godsdienst en seksuele gerichtheid’, Nijmegen Migration Law Working Papers Series (8), 2014 Abstract Since several years, the Court of Justice of the European Union – next to the European Court of Human Rights – acts as European asylum judge. Over the … Read more