Subject: Sexual Orientation/Sexuality

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

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.