Rachel A Lewis, ‘“Gay? Prove it”: The politics of queer anti-deportation activism’, Sexualities, 2014, Vol.17(8), pp. 958-975 Abstract: This article examines how gender, sexuality, race and class intersect in queer asylum claims to influence the perceived credibility of gay and lesbian asylum applicants. Building on recent scholarship in queer migration studies that considers the role … Read more
Subject: LGBT+
Decision of the Third Section of the ECtHR in A.S.B. v. the Netherlands, Application no. 4854/12, 10 July 2012
Decision of the Fifth Section of the ECtHR in the case of M.K.N. v. Sweden, Application no. 72413/10, 27 June 2013
ILGA Europe, ‘Protecting the rights of LGBTI asylum seekers and refugees in the reform of the Common European Asylum System’, 2016
UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), UNHCR Guidance Note on Refugee Claims Relating to Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity, 21 November 2008 Note: These Guidelines are replaced by the 2012 Guidelines on International Protection No. 9: Claims to Refugee Status based on Sexual Orientation and/or Gender Identity within the context of Article 1A(2) of the … Read more
ILGA Europe, ‘Seeking refuge without harassment, detention or return to a “safe country” – ILGA Europe Briefing on LGBTI Refugees and Asylum’, February 2016
UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), Guidelines on International Protection No. 9: Claims to Refugee Status based on Sexual Orientation and/or Gender Identity within the context of Article 1A(2) of the 1951 Convention and/or its 1967 Protocol relating to the Status of Refugees, 23 October 2012, HCR/GIP/12/01 Note: These Guidelines replace the UNHCR Guidance Note on … Read more
Evangelia (Lilian) Tsourdi (author) and Joël Le Déroff (editor), ‘Laying the grounds for LGBTI sensitive asylum decision-making in Europe: transposition of the Recast Asylum Procedure Directives and of the Recast Reception Conditions Directive’, ILGA Europe, May 2014
UN Committee Against Torture, K. S. Y. v. The Netherlands, Communication No. 190/2001, 15 May 2003, CAT/C/30/D/190/2001
Sabine Jansen (author) and Joël Le Déroff (editor), ‘Good practices related to LGBTI asylum applicants in Europe’, ILGA-Europe, May 2014