04 March 2020

Thematic Focus: Sexual Orientation & Gender Identity

Event & opportunity:

CFP: REMHU: Revista Interdisciplinar da Mobilidade Humana [info]
- Contributions sought for a forthcoming dossier on "LGBT Migrants and Refugees." Submission deadline is 15 April 2020.

Call for registration: Final Conference of the SOGICA Project, Brighton, UK, 7-8 July 2020 [info]
- Register by 30 April 2020.

Blog posts & press:

"Aid Organisations Fail to Protect LGBTQI+ Aid Workers in the Field," The New Humanitarian, 16 Jan. 2020 [text]

"'How Do I Convince the Home Office I'm a Lesbian?'," BBC News, 26 Feb. 2020 [text]

More Protection Urgently Needed for Venezuelan LGBTQ+ Refugees in Brazil (The Conversation, Feb. 2020) [text]

Journal articles:

"Against Abandonment Activist-Humanitarian Responses to LGBT Refugees in Athens and Beirut,"  Journal of Refugee Studies, Advance Articles, 27 Feb. 2020 [Academia]

"Homonationalist/Orientalist Negotiations: The UK Approach to Queer Asylum Claims," Sexuality & Culture 24, 174–196 (2020) [open access]

"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, no. 17 (2019) [open access]

*"Minority Stress, Social Integration, and the Mental Health Needs of LGBTQ Asylum Seekers in North America," Social Science & Medicine, vol. 246 (Feb. 2020) [ResearchGate]

*"A Qualitative Exploration of the Integration Experiences of LGBTQ Refugees Who Fled from the Middle East, North Africa, and Central and South Asia to Austria and the Netherlands," Sexuality Research and Social Policy, 17 (2020) [ResearchGate]

"Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity as a Basis for Refugee Claims in Australia," University of New South Wales Law Journal Student Series, no. 1 (2020) [full-text]

"'Shoot Them!' The Trump Administration’s Immigration Policy and Its Effect on LGBTI Migrants and Asylum Seekers," Georgetown Immigration Law Journal, vol. 34, no. 1 (Fall 2019) [full-text]

"'The Unarmed Road of Flight': The Rights of LGBT Asylum-Seekers under American Refugee Law," Law School Student Scholarship, no. 1035 (Seton Hall Univ., 2020) [full-text]

"Who is 'Queerer' and Deserves Resettlement?: Queer Asylum Seekers and Their Deservingness of Refugee Status in Turkey," Middle East Critique, vol. 29, no. 1 (2020) [Academia]

Multimedia:

Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity and Asylum: Australian and Global Perspectives, Sydney, 12 Dec. 2019 [info]
- Follow link for podcast.

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Related post:
Thematic Focus: Gender Issues, incl. SOGI - Pt. 1 (7 Dec. 2019)

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