Subject: Migration

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

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

Hana Masri, ‘A Liberated Life? Thoughts on the Paradoxical Binds of Queer Refuge’, 2017 Kohl 3.1: pp. 36-40

Sabiha Allouche, ‘(Dis)-Intersecting Intersectionality in the Time of Queer Syrian-Refugee-ness in Lebanon’, 2017 Kohl 3.1: pp. 59-77 Abstract This paper heeds Jasbir Puar’s call to supplement an intersectional analysis with an exercise of assemblage when examining identity politics. It argues that asylum organizations’ unwillingness to account for the interplay between the receiving state (in this … Read more

T. Gavrielides (ed.), ‘Supporting and Including LGBTI Migrants. Needs, Experiences & Good Practices’, Epsilon project, 2017.

Lee and Brotman, ‘Identity, Refugeeness, Belonging: Experiences of Sexual Minority Refugees in Canada’, 2011, Canadian Review of Sociology 48 (3): 241–274 Abstract Cet article explore les résultats d’un projet de recherche communautaire qualitatif sur les expériences intersectionnelles des réfugiés minorités sexuelles vivant à Montréal et Toronto. Menée entre 2007 à 2010, cette étude a examiné … Read more

UNHCR and IOM, ‘Training package on the protection of LGBTI persons in forced displacement’, 2017 Abstract LGBTI people face a complex array of challenges and threats, including discrimination, prejudice, violence, difficulty accessing humanitarian services and barriers to articulating their protection needs to assisting organizations. Efforts to improve the protection of LGBTI people have recently gained … Read more

Recommendation CM/Rec(2010)5 of the Committee of Ministers to member states on measures to combat discrimination on grounds of sexual orientation or gender identity, adopted by the Committee of Ministers on 31 March 2010 at the 1081st meeting of the Ministers’ Deputies

The case is related to an asylum seeker from Tunisia who, despite the denial of the refugee status, was granted a humanitarian protection due to his sexual orientation and religion in accordance with the principle of non-refoulement.