11 July 2020

Thematic Focus: Sexual Orientation & Gender Identity

Blog posts & press:

For Salvadoran LGBTI People, "At the moment, it’s riskier than ever" (UNHCR, June 2020) [text]

This World Refugee Day and Pride Month We Need to Save LGBTQ Asylum (The Hill, June 2020) [text]
- Focuses on the US. See also related template from Immigration Equality that provides info on how to submit a comment re. the administration's proposed rule to limit SOGI-based asylum.

Reports & journal articles:

30 Recommendations for Improving the Lives of People Claiming Asylum on the Basis of Sexual Orientation or Gender Identity (SOGI) in the UK (SOGICA, July 2020) [text]

32 Recommendations to the European Commission on the New EU LGBTI+ Equality Strategy (SOGICA, July 2020) [access]

Country of Origin Report: Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity and Expression in Honduras (ORAM & Univ. of Minnesota, July 2020) [text via ImmigrationProf Blog]

'Great Expectations, Harsh Realities': Exploratory Study into the Plight of LGBTI+ Refugees in Thailand (Equal Asia Foundation, June 2020) [text via ALNAP]

The Impact of COVID-19 on Displaced LGBTQI Persons (Rainbow Railroad, June 2020) [text via ALNAP]

"The LGBTQ Asylum Seeker: Particular Social Groups and Authentic Queer Identities," Georgetown Journal of Gender and the Law, vol. XX, no. 3 (2019) [full-text]
- Focuses on the US.

Queering Asylum in Europe: A Survey Report (SOGICS, 2020) [text]
- See also related Guardian article and Univ. of Sussex news item.

The Refugee Status Determination of Transgender Asylum Seekers: A Queer Critique, Global Migration Research Paper, no. 24 ( Global Migration Centre, 2020) [text]

Sin Fronteras: Un Mundo de Diversidad(es) - Guía para Funcionarios/as sobre Derechos y Atención a Personas Refugiadas y Migrantes LGBTI+ en Argentina, Brasil, Colombia, Chile, Ecuador y Perú (R4V & UNHCR, June 2020) [text via ReliefWeb]

"UNHCR and LGBTI Refugees in Kenya: The Limits of ‘Protection’," Disasters, Accepted Articles, 22 May 2020 [open access]

Related post:
Thematic Focus: Sexual Orientation & Gender Identity (26 May 2020)


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