European Asylum Support Office (EASO), ‘EASO Asylum Report 2020: Annual Report on the Situation of Asylum in the European Union’, EASO , 2020 See SOGICA’s input here.
Subject: Sexual Orientation/Sexuality
Equal Asia Foundation, ‘Great Expectations, Harsh Realities. The Plight of LGBTI+ Refugees in Thailand. An Exploratory Study’, June 2020 Executive Summary (excerpt): The circumstances and condition of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Intersex (LGBTI+) refugees in Thailand is not well researched, even by stakeholders who work with refugees and LGBTI+ communities. This lack of information … Read more
Deniz Akin, ‘Discursive Construction of Genuine LGBT Refugees’, Vol. 23 No. 3-4 (2018): Lamda Nordica – New nordic queer research Abstract This article discusses the ways in which different discourses construct a genuine LGBT refugee subject in Norway. In doing so, it problematizes the notion of a predetermined/ahistorical/context-free LGBT refugee subject who can be discovered … Read more
Deniz Akin, ‘Assessing Sexual Orientation-Based Persecution: A Closer Look at the Norwegian Practices of Asylum Evaluation of Gay and Lesbian Claimants’, 2015 Lambda Nordica, 20(1), 17-42
Marios Kontos, ‘Asylum, sexuality and concealment: where are we a decade on from HJ (Iran)?’, Free Movement blog, 7 July 2020 Abstract On 7 July 2010, the Supreme Court handed down its landmark decision in HJ (Iran) [2010] UKSC 31, in which it established how asylum applications are to be decided when applicants flee persecution on … Read more
Isela González Vázquez, ‘A Cluster Concept Approach to Thinking About Sexual Orientation’, 2020 (working draft)
6Rang, ‘Letter to Dutch government regarding its asylum policy for Iranian LGBTQI’, 11 February 2020 Abstract In this open letter to Dutch Government ministers, the NGO 6Rang raise concerns about the protection level offered to the Iranian LGBT asylum seekers in the Netherlands and the current situation of LGBT rights and protections in Iran.
Daniel Borrillo, Manuela Salcedo and Shira Havkin, ‘Les demandes d’asile en raison de l’orientation sexuelle: comment prouver l’intime?’, Défenseur des droits / CERSA, May 2020 [See, also, Daniel Borrillo, Manuela Salcedo and Shira Havkin, ‘La preuve dans les demandes d’asile en raison de l’orientation sexuelle‘, April 2020] Résumé Ces dernières années, les demandes d’asile en … Read more
Daniel Borrillo, Manuela Salcedo and Shira Havkin, ‘La preuve dans les demandes d’asile en raison de l’orientation sexuelle’, April 2020 [See, also, Daniel Borrillo, Manuela Salcedo and Shira Havkin, ‘Les demandes d’asile en raison de l’orientation sexuelle: comment prouver l’intime?‘, Défenseur des droits / CERSA, May 2020]
Henriette Gunkel and Ben Pitcher (eds.), ‘Racism in the Closet – Interrogating Postcolonial Sexuality’, Darkmatter, issue no. 3, 2008 Table of contents Editorial: Racism in the Closet – Interrogating Postcolonial Sexuality by Henriette Gunkel and Ben Pitcher • 2 May 2008 Articles Loyal Repetitions of the Nation: Gay Assimilation and the ‘War on Terror’ … Read more