European Commission, ‘LGBTIQ Equality Strategy 2020-2025’, November 2020
Subject: Gender Identity
Mert Koçak, ‘Legally Unrecognized but Bureaucratically Tolerated: Queer Iranian Refugees Living in Turkey’, Network for Migration Matters, 5 November 2020 Abstract Shouleh[i], a lesbian refugee from Iran, told me, “We (Iranian queer refugees living in Turkey) want only three things: resettlement, financial help, and parties!”. She started the sentence with a serious face and ended … Read more
Upper Tribunal (Immigration and Asylum Chamber), Mx M (gender identity – HJ (Iran) – terminology) El Salvador [2020] UKUT 313 (IAC), 30 September 2020 Decision makers should where possible apply the guidance in the Equal Treatment Bench Book and use gender terminology which respects the chosen identity of claimants before them. The principles in HJ … Read more
European Commission (Directorate-General for Justice and Consumers), ‘Final report 2015-2019 on the list of actions to advance LGBTI equality’, June 2020 Abstract In December 2015, the Commission presented the ‘List of actions to advance LGBTI equality’ to the Council and the European Parliament. This was its response to a European Parliament resolution and a joint … Read more
Katrina Struthers, ‘LGBTI Refugee Protection in a Culture of Disbelief: The impact of integration’, 2020, RLI Working Paper No. 50 This study examines the impact of the refugee status determination (RSD) process in the UK on LGBTI refugees who have been successful with ‘proving’ their sexual orientation. This research explores the impact that the process, … Read more
Independent Chief Inspector of Borders and Immigration, ‘Inspection of Country of Origin Information Thematic Report on Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity or Expression’, 2020 The report looks at individual Home Office ‘Country Policy and Information Notes’ and ‘Country of Origin Information Requests’. The recommendations cover both. Home Office Response to an inspection of country of … Read more
Aino Gröndahl, ‘Avslagsmotiveringar i Hbtqi-Asylärenden’ [Reasons for refusal in LGBTQI asylum cases], RFSL 2020 Abstract En rättsutredning av Migrationsverkets, migrationsdomstolarnas och Migrationsöverdomstolens prövning av sexuell läggning, könsidentitet och könsuttryck. Summary of conclusions in English in p. 9.
Eren Aygün, ‘Prospects and Challenges of NGOs. Working with LGBTIQ Asylum-Seekers in Germany: Homonationalism as a Practice-Informing Concept for International Social Work with LGBTIQ Asylum-Seekers and Refugees’, University of Applied Sciences Würzburg-Schweinfurt (Faculty of Applied Social Sciences), Master’s degree in International Social Work with Refugees and Migrants, 2019 Abstract The aim of this master’s thesis … Read more
Petra Sußner, ‘Mit Recht gegen die Verhältnisse: Asylrechtlicher Schutz vor Heteronormativität’, Zeitschrift für Menschenrechte / Journal for Human Rights, 2020 Abstract [DE] Als Verfolgungsgru¨nde sind sexuelle Orientierung und geschlechtliche Identita¨t im Asyl- recht angekommen. In der Praxis zeigt sich jedoch, dass der Schutz fu¨r LGBTIQ2-Asyl- suchende De zite aufweist. Der Artikel geht diesen Umsetzungsde ziten … Read more
Dale Buscher, ‘Unequal in Exile: Gender Equality, Sexual Identity and Refugee Status’, 2011, Amsterdam Law Forum; Vol 3, No 2