Subject: Refugee/Asylum

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

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

Sabine Jansen and Thomas Spijkerboer, ‘Fleeing Homophobia: Asylum Claims Related to Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity in Europe’, September 2011, COC Nederland / Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

Sabine Jansen and Thomas Spijkerboer, ‘In Fuga Dall’ Omofobia: Domande Di Protezione Internazionale Per Orientamento Sessuale E Identità Di Genere In Europa’, Settembre 2011, COC Nederland / Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

Jafarizad Barenji Rana v Hungary, Application no. 40888/17, lodged on 29 May 2017 (Fourth section)

COC Out and Proud Conference 2017, ‘LGBTI Asylum in Europe’, Amsterdam, 5 and 6 October 2017