Subject: Gender Identity

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

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

UKLGIG, ‘Submission to the APPG on Global LGBT Rights’, 2015.

UKLGIG, ‘Written Submission to the Independent Review into the Welfare in Detention of Vulnerable Persons’, 2015.

UKLGIG, ‘Protecting Rainbow Refugees: Progress and Challenges in LGBTI Asylum Law and Practice. UKLGIG Rainbow Refugees Seminar’, 7 July 2015.

UKLGIG, ‘Submission to Women and Equalities Committee Inquiry into Trans Equality. Needs and Experiences of Trans Asylum Seekers’, 21 August 2015.

Linke, Juliane/ Wessel, Barbara (2017): Rechtliche Expertise: Situation unverheirateter gleichgeschlechtlicher Partner*innen im Asylverfahren. Schwulenberatung: Berlin.

Daniel Braga Nascimento,  Emilie de Haas e Roberta Camineiro Baggio, ‘Migration Due To Sexual Orientation And Gender Identity – Migração Em Razão De Perseguição Por Orientação Sexual Ou Identidade De Gênero’, Revista do Direito. v. 1, n. 51, p. 58-67, jan./abr. 2017 .