Human Rights First, Persistent Needs and Gaps: the Protection of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Intersex (LGBTI) Refugees: An Overview of UNHCR’s Response to LGBTI Refugees and Recommendations to Enhance Protection, September 09, 2010 Summary In all regions of the world people continue to flee their homes on account of their sexual orientation or gender … Read more
Subject: Refugee/Asylum
Nicole LaViolette, ‘Sexual Orientation and the Refugee Determination Process: Questioning a Claimant About Their Membership in the Particular Social Group’, in S. Levy (ed.), Asylum Based on Sexual Orientation; A Resource Guide, San Francisco: IGLHRC, 1996 Abstract For many years now, gay men and lesbians have been granted asylum in Canada on the ground that … Read more
Fatma E. Marouf, ‘The emerging importance of “social visibility” in defining a “particular social group” and its potential impact on asylum claims related to sexual orientation and gender’, 2008 Yale Law and Policy Review, 27: 47-106
ORAM – Organization for Refuge, Asylum & Migration, Opening doors: a global survey of NGO attitudes towards LGBTI refugees and asylum seekers, San Francisco: ORAM, 2012 Abstract Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and intersex (LGBTI) asylum seekers and refugees are among the most vulnerable people in the world. Having fled persecution in their home countries without … Read more
Arwen Swink, ‘Queer refuge: a review of the role of country condition analysis in asylum adjudication for members of sexual minorities’, Hastings International and Comparative Law Review, 29: 251, 2006
Alexandre Bongiovanni, ‘Demande d’asile au motif de l’orientation sexuelle: la CJUE fait un tout petit pas… mais dans la bonne direction’, La Revue des droits de l’homme [Online], Actualités Droits-Libertés, 2018
Alex Cooper, ‘LGBTQ asylum-seekers in Europe subjected to stereotyping and humiliation, rights group says’, NBC News / NBC Out, 29 November 2018
First section, Application no. 31428/18, S.A.C. against the United Kingdom, lodged on 5 July 2018 Summary This application concerns a Bangladeshi national who had claimed asylum on the ground that he feared persecution on return to Bangladesh as a gay/bisexual man. He was denied international protection. The applicant complains under Article 3 of the ECHR … Read more
Karimi, A., ‘Sexuality and integration: a case of gay Iranian refugees’ collective memories and integration practices in Canada’, Ethnic and Racial Studies 2018 Abstract During the past two decades, Canada has accepted hundreds of LGBT asylum seekers, including gay Iranian men. Sociologists of sexualities and migration have yet to study this group as immigrants whose … Read more
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