Thematic Focus: Sexual Orientation & Gender Identity

Opportunity:

CFP: Journal of Lesbian Studies [info]
- Contributions sought for special issue on "Lives That Resist Telling: Migrant and Refugee Lesbians." Submission deadline is 30 June 2018.

Publications:

European Court of Justice Bans Homosexuality Tests for Asylum Seekers (EJIL: Talk Blog, May 2018) [text]

Forced to Flee Her Home, Trans Activist Calls for Tolerance (UNHCR, May 2018) [text]

France: National Court of Asylum Recognises Refugee Status to Venezuelan Applicant Fleeing Persecution on Grounds of Sexual Orientation (EDAL, April 2018) [text]

Guest Post: Preparing Asylum Claims Based on Sexual Identity (Free Movement Blog, May 2018) [text]

Human Rights Claims on the Basis of Homosexuality in Asylum Applications & Appeals (EIN Blog, May 2018) [text]

ICE’s Rejection of Its Own Rules is Placing LGBT Immigrants at Severe Risk of Sexual Abuse (Center for American Progress, May 2018) [text]

"The L.G.B.T. Refugees in Turkey Who Refuse to Be Forgotten," New Yorker, 14 June 2018 [text]

"Op-Ed: Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity and Asylum in the UK: Is ‘Discretion’ Ever a Choice?," ECRE Weekly Bulletin, 17 May 2018 [text]

Performing for Their Lives: LGBT Individuals Seeking Asylum (OUP Blog, June 2018) [text]

The Reform of the Common European Asylum System: Fifteen Recommendations from a Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Perspective (SOGICA & Univ. of Sussex, May 2018) [text]

Taking Sexual and Gender Minorities Out of the Too-hard Basket (Humanitarian Advisory Group, June 2018) [text]
- See also related Devex article.

UNHCR Chief Calls for Solidarity with LGBTI Displaced (UNHCR, May 2018) [text]

Related post:
- Thematic Focus: Sexual Orientation & Gender Identity (11 April 2018)

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