Guglielmo Verdirame, ‘A Friendly Act of Socio-Cultural Contestation: Asylum and the Big Cultural Divide’, 44 New York University Journal of International Law and Politics 557, 570 (2012)
Subject: LGBT+
O.S. v. Switzerland Application no. 43987/16 – Written Submissions on behalf of the Aire Centre (Advice on Individual Rights in Europe), the European Council on Refugees and Exiles (ECRE), ILGA-Europe (the European Region of the International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Association) and the International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) See related O.S. v Switzerland … Read more
Schmidt, Frank, LSBTI mit Fluchtgeschichte in Berlin: Zur besonderen Bedürfnislage geflüchteter Menschen mit schwuler, lesbischer, bi-, trans- oder intersexueller Orientierung und Identität (LSBTI) und daraus ableitbaren Interventions- und Konzeptionsmöglichkeiten Sozialer Arbeit, Bachelorarbeit zur Erlangung des Akademischen Grades „Bachelor of Arts“ (B.A.) im Studiengang „Soziale Arbeit“ an der „Alice Salomon“ – Hochschule für Sozialarbeit und Sozialpädagogik … Read more
Dustin M. and Ferreira N., ‘Canada’s Guideline 9: improving SOGIE claims assessment?’, 2017 Forced Migration Review 56 (October), at http://www.fmreview.org/latinamerica-caribbean.html and SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3020950 Abstract Asylum seekers making claims relating to their sexual orientation and gender identity often face unfair refusal. New guidance from the Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada takes admirable steps towards improving claims assessment, and offers a model … Read more
Independent Chief Inspector of Borders and Immigration, ‘An Investigation into the Home Office’s Handling of Asylum Claims Made on the Grounds of Sexual Orientation March-June 2014’, 2014
Wessels, Janna, ‘HJ (Iran) and HT (Cameroon) – Reflections on a New Test for Sexuality-Based Asylum Claims in Britain’, International Journal of Refugee Law, 24 (2012), 815–39.
Thomas Spijkerboer, ‘Gender, sexuality, asylum and European human rights’, Law and Critique (2018) 29: 221
Human Rights Watch, ‘Spain: LGBT Asylum Seekers Abused in North African Enclave. Transfer Sexual Minorities from Ceuta to Mainland’, 2017.
Deniz Akin, ‘Queer asylum seekers: translating sexuality in Norway’, in Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 2017, 3, 458-474 Abstract This paper focuses on the burden of proof that queer asylum seekers encounter in Norway and how they tackle it. It is argued that queer asylum seekers translate their sexuality, sometimes strategically, to become readable … Read more
Written Comments of FIDH, APDHE, ILGA-EUROPE, ECSOL, and UKLGIG on Application No. 15109/15, M.B. v. Spain, European Court of Human Rights, Third Section, Submitted on 15 January 2016