Subject: Refugee/Asylum

Adena L. Wayne, ‘Unique Identities and Vulnerabilities: The Case for Transgender Identity as a Basis for Asylum’, 102 Cornell Law Review 241 (2016) Abstract On September 3, 2015, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit suspended the deportation of a transgender Mexican woman because the Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA or Board) had … Read more

Bina Fernandez, ‘“Sconfinatori” e “sconfinatrici” queer: Complicità pragmatiche, indiscrezioni e sovvertimenti’, Deportate, Esuli, Profughe (DEP) n. 38/2018 Abstract I consider queer lived experience through a focus on LGBTQIA asylum seekers while also looking towards the ways in which queering as an epistemological standpoint can be used to challenge the state-based system of the global order. … Read more

Decision of the Fifth Section of the ECtHR in H.A. and H.A. v. Norway, Application no 56167/16, 3 January 2017

Decision of the Second Section of the ECtHR in Ayegh v. Sweden, Application no. 4701/05, 7 November 2006

High Court of Australia, Appellant S395/2002 v. Minister for Immigration and Multicultural Affairs; Appellant S396/2002 v. Minister for Immigration and Multicultural Affairs, [2003] HCA 71, 9 December 2003

Laurynas Biekša, ‘The Refugee Qualification Problems in LGBT Asylum Cases’, Jurisprudencija / Jurisprudence 2011, 18(4), p. 1555–1565

Alice Edwards, ‘X, Y and Z: The “A, B, C” of Claims based on Sexual Orientation and/or Gender Identity?’, UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), International Commission of Jurists: Expert Roundtable on asylum claims based on sexual orientation or gender identity or expression, Brussels, 27 June 2014

Philip L. Dayle, Natalie A. DeJarlais, Neil Grungras, Mary A. Hutton, H. Jessica Kim, Rachel S. Levitan, Kevin C. Lo, Deidre A. Plant, Okan Sengün, and Ariel A. Travis, ‘Rights & Protection of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender & Intersex Refugees & Asylum Seekers Under the Yogyakarta Principles’, ORAM–Organization for Refuge, Asylum & Migration, San Francisco, … Read more

David Bolt (Independent Chief Inspector of Borders and Immigration), ‘An inspection of the Home Office’s management of asylum accommodation provision – February – June 2018’, Presented to Parliament pursuant to Section 50(2) of the UK Borders Act 2007, November 2018

Rachel Lewis, ‘Deportable Subjects: Lesbians and Political Asylum’, Feminist Formations, vol. 25 no. 2, 2013, pp. 174-194 Abstract This article explores how deportation as a state of emergency structures the queer migration narratives of lesbian refugees and asylum-seekers. The first part of the article discusses the ways in which the political asylum system produces queer, … Read more