Subject: Sexual Orientation/Sexuality

Georges Ravarani, ‘Assessment of the credibility of asylum-seekers: The burden of proof and the limits of the ECHR’s examination’, European Court of Human Rights, 2017 Abstract The assessment of credibility and the burden of proof are core issues in asylum cases. They raise very concrete questions that national courts have to deal with, being assisted … Read more

Dixson and Dixson, Report on the Queer Displacements: Sexuality, Migration and Exile conference, 2019. During 13-15th of November 2019, we held the first conference in Australia solely dedicated to the issues of LGBTIQ+ forced displacement. The conference was attended by 150 participants (academics, service providers, policy makers, government officials and LGBTIQ+ asylum seekers and refugees). … Read more

D. McDonald-Norman, ‘Koushal v. Naz Foundation and the Lessons of International Refugee Law’, in Sarasu E. Thomas (ed), Gender, Human Rights and Law, 2016, 161-183 Abstract In its decision in Suresh Kumar Koushal and anor v NAZ Foundation and ors (Koushal), the Supreme Court of India declared that section 377 of the Indian Penal Code, … Read more

UKLGIG, ‘HJ (Iran) and HT (Cameroon) in Country Policy Information Notes on Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity and Gender Expression’, 2019 In December 2019, UKLGIG published a paper about the use of the UK Supreme Court’s judgment in HJ (Iran) and HT (Cameroon) v SSHD [2010] UKSC 32 in Country Policy Information Notes on Sexual Orientation, … Read more

Robert Lidstone, ‘Refugee Queerings: Sexuality, Identity and Place in Canadian Refugee Determination’, thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in the Department of Geography, Simon Fraser University, Spring 2006 Abstract Over the past decade, the Immigration and Refugee Board (IRB) of Canada has granted asylum to several … Read more

Sharif, Raihan, ‘White Gaze Saving Brown Queers: Homonationalism Meets Imperialist Islamophobia’, Limina, Volume 21.1, 1-19, 2015 Abstract In asylum cases, some western countries use global gay discourses and teleological developmental narratives to (mis)recognise non-Western queerness. This paper investigates a number of queer asylum cases to explain how the set conditions for a queer asylum status … Read more

Hadriel G. S. Theodoro and Denise Cogo, ‘LGBTQI+ Immigrants and Refugees in the City of São Paulo: Uses of Icts in a South-South Mobility Context’, Revue française des sciences de l’information et de la communication, 17, 2019 Abstract L’objectif de ce travail est d’analyser comment les utilisations et la consommation des technologies de l’information et … Read more

Connie Oxford, ‘Queer asylum: Policies and responses to sexual orientation and transgendered persecution’, in Marlou Schrover and Deirdre M. Moloney, ‘Gender, migration and categorisation: Making distinctions between migrants in Western countries, 1945-2010’, Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press B.V., 2013, pp. 127-149 (IMISCOE Research) Abstract This chapter examines US asylum laws (both legislative and case law) and … Read more

Stuart, A. (2012) Over and out Redressed 2012: An Update on Progress against the Original Recommendations of the Over Not Out Report (2009). London: MBARC. Our initial ‘Over Not Out’ research aimed to shine a brighter light on the plight of those 1800 people and it led to more lights shining, firstly from outside government … Read more

Hevi LGBTI Association, ‘LGBTI Refugees’, 2019 Abstract This book, ‘LGBTI Refugees’, was prepared by Hevi LGBTI Association, the Hevi working team on LGBTI refugees, and with the support of the specialists in their field. To begin with, we want to point out the violation of rights, originating from the definations of the terms ‘Refugee, Asylum-Seeker, … Read more