Subject: Sexual Orientation/Sexuality

Daniel Braga Nascimento, ‘Migrantes em Razão de Orientação Sexual ou Identidade de Gênero’, in XI Seminário Nacional ‘Demandas Sociais e Políticas Públicas na Sociedade Contemporânea – I Mostra Nacional de Trabalhos Científicos. Abstract O conceito de refugiado é expresso no Art. 1º Inciso I, da Lei 9.474/97 (Estatuto do Estrangeiro), definindo refugiado como todo indivíduo … Read more

Independent Chief Inspector of Borders and Immigration (ICIBI), An inspection of the Home Office’s production and use of Country of Origin Information. April – August 2017, 30 January 2018 The Home Office response to the ICIBI report is also available: Home Office, The Home Office response to the Independent Chief Inspector of Borders and Immigration’s … Read more

Asylum Aid policy briefing, ‘Sexual Borders: Does the UK Adequately Protect People Seeking Asylum based on Risk of Persecution relating to Sexual or Gender Identity or Expression?’ February 2018.

Hungarian Helsinki Committee, ‘Credibility Assessment in Asylum Procedures – A Multidisciplinary Training Manual , Volume 2’, 2015

Rahul Rao, Third World Protest : Between Home and the World, OUP, 2010. If boundaries protect us from threats, how should we think about the boundaries of states in a world where threats to human rights emanate from both outside the state and the state itself? Arguing that attitudes towards boundaries are premised on assumptions … Read more

Carmelo Danisi, Moira Dustin, Nuno Ferreira and Nina Held, ‘SOGICA – Case studies comparison’, updated 15 March 2018. This table maps some of the similarities and differences in SOGI asylum law and policy across our three case study countries – Germany, Italy and the UK – and at European level.

Farrah Jafari, Silencing Sexuality: LGBT Refugees and the Public-Private Divide in Iran and Turkey, PhD dissertation (supervised by Anne Betteridge and Leila Hudson), The University of Arizona, 2013 Abstract The current Islamic Republic of Iran distinguishes between homosexuals and same-sex sexual activity: the former is not recognized as an identity, while state apparatuses openly condemn … Read more

Decision of the Fourth Section of the ECtHR in A.E. v. Finland, Application no. 30953/11, 22 September 2015

Gina Clayton, Tanya Crowther, Jane Kerr, Sarah Sharrock and Debora Singer. Editor: Matt Barnard, ‘Through Her Eyes: Enabling women’s best evidence in UK asylum appeals’, 2017 (Migrants Resource Centre, Asylum Aid, NatCen Social Research).

B. O’Leary, ‘“We Cannot Claim Any Particular Knowledge of the Ways of Homosexuals, Still Less of Iranian Homosexuals …”: The Particular Problems Facing Those Who Seek Asylum on the Basis of their Sexual Identity’, 2008 Feminist Legal Studies, Volume 16, Issue 1, pp 87–95 Abstract Many lesbians and gay men apply for asylum in the U.K. each … Read more