Subject: Sexual Orientation/Sexuality

European Commission, ‘EMN Ad-Hoc Query on NL AHQ on national asylum policies regarding LGBT-asylum seekers – Requested by NL EMN NCP on 2nd May 2016′, 2016

Committee on Migration, Refugees and Population / Ruth-Gaby Vermot-Mangold, ‘Report on Situation of gays and lesbians and their partners in respect to asylum and immigration in the member states of the Council of Europe’, Doc. 8654, 25 February 2000

BBC News, ‘Meet Iran’s gay mullah forced to flee the country’, 8 June 2016 Abstract In Iran, homosexuality is banned and punishable by execution under its strict code of sharia, or Islamic law. In a country dominated by the religious class, being gay is taboo, and especially among the establishment. One Iranian gay cleric, who … Read more

International Commission of Jurists, ‘Refugee Status Claims Based on Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity: ICJ Practitioners’ Guide n° 11’, 2016

Mary Kapron & Nicole LaViolette, ‘Refugee Claims Based on Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity: An Annotated Bibliography’, Université d’Ottawa / University of Ottawa, June 2014 Abstract This annotated bibliography gives an account of legal and social sciences research sources related to refugee claims based on sexual orientation and gender identity. The bibliography, which focuses primarily … Read more

Shana Tabak and Rachel Levitan, ‘LGBTI Migrants in Immigration Detention: A Global Perspective’, Harvard Journal of Law and Gender, Vol. 37, No. 1, 2014 Abstract In recent years, the state practice of detaining migrants has come under close examination for the multiple ways in which detention is likely compromise the human rights of detainees. With … Read more

Harumi Ozawa, ‘Gay Iranian Desperate to Stay in Japan’, Daily Yomiuri, 2001

C. Bennett and F. Thomas, ‘Seeking asylum in the UK: Lesbian perspectives’. Forced Migration Review pp 42, 26–28, University of Oxford’s Refugee Studies Centre, 2013 Abstract Many aspects of the UK asylum process can be confusing, disempowering and traumatic for lesbian asylum seekers. Recent research examines the impacts of this process on their experiences, their identity … Read more

European Migration Network, ‘Ad Hoc query on NL AHQ on national asylum policies regarding LGBT-asylum seekers’, 2016

Jansen, Sabine, ‘Trots of schaamte?’ (‘Pride or shame?’), 2018, COC Nederland The Immigration and Naturalization Service (IND) uses fixed criteria to assess whether people who flee to the Netherlands for fear of persecution because of their sexual identity are LGBTI. The most important criterion, according to the file investigation that the COC carried out at the … Read more