European Migration Network, ‘Ad Hoc query on NL AHQ on national asylum policies regarding LGBT-asylum seekers’, 2016
Subject: Sexual Orientation/Sexuality
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
Elizabeth Connely, ‘Queer, Beyond a Reasonable Doubt: Refugee Experiences of “Passing” into “Membership of a Particular Social Group”‘, UCL Migration Research Unit Working Papers 2014/3 Abstract Sexual orientation-based asylum claims have historically been fraught with difficulties. Although considered eligible for refugee protection in a small number of countries beginning the 1990s, knowledge and acceptance of … Read more
Nina Held, SOGICA Table of German SOGI asylum case law 1988-2018, September 2018
Gemma Lousley and Sarah Cope, ‘We are still here. The continued detention of women seeking asylum in Yarl’s Wood’, 2017, Women for Refugee Women
Brighton & Hove LGBT Switchboard, ‘LGBTQ Migrants, Refugees, and Asylum Seekers’ Pathways and Support in Brighton & Hove Report’, March 2018
Marchu Girma, Isabelle Kershaw, Gemma Lousley, Sophie Radice & Natasha Walter, ‘I Am Human. Refugee women’s experiences of detention in the UK’, 2015, Women for Refugee Women.
UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), ‘The Protection of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Intersex Asylum-Seekers and Refugees’, 22 September 2010
EASO – European Asylum Support Office, ‘Annual Report on the Situation of Asylum in the EU 2017’, 2018
UK Lesbian & Gay Immigration Group (UKLGIG), ‘Applying HJ (Iran) and HT (Cameroon) to asylum claims based on sexual orientation’, 2018.