08 September 2020

Thematic Focus: Sexual Orientation & Gender Identity

Opportunity:

CFP: Mashriq & Mahjar: Journal of Middle East and North African Migration Studies [info]
- Contributions sought for a special issue on "Queering Middle East Migrations." Submission deadline is 1 October 2020.

Blog posts & press:

Death of Transgender Asylum Seeker in Guatemala Highlights Increased Risks and Protection Needs for LGBTI Community (UNHCR, Aug. 2020) [text]

Displaced, Disconnected, Disregarded: The Impact of COVID-19 on the Lives of LGBTIQ+ People Seeking Asylum in Australia (Kaldor Centre, July 2020) [text]

"US Asylum Shutdown Leaves LGBTQ+ People Stranded and in Danger in Mexico," The New Humanitarian, 13 Aug. 2020 [text]

'We are taboo everywhere': How LGBTIQ+ People, and Their Children, Become Stateless (The Conversation, Aug. 2020) [text]

Reports & journal articles:

"Closeted or Credible: How Misinterpretation of the Real ID Act Prevents Closeted LGBTQ+ Applicants from Establishing Credible Asylum Claims," American University Journal of Gender, Social Policy & the Law, vol. 28, no. 2 (2020) [full-text]
- Focuses on the US.

"Experimenting with Credibility in Refugee Adjudication: Gaydar," Canadian Journal of Human Rights, vol. 9, no. 1 (2020) [full-text]

Gender Responsive Settlement: Broader Learnings from LGBTIQ+ Refugees (Migration Council of Australia & Forcibly Displaced People Network, 2020) [text]

LGBTQ+ Newcomer Resettlement: Insights of a Frontline Worker and Student of Social Work (CARFMS, July 2020) [text]
- Note: This paper was the winner of the CARFMS 2020 essay contest (undergraduate category).

"LGBTQI+ Populations Face Unique Challenges during Pandemic," Policy Options, 24 July 2020 [text]
- Focuses on Venezuelans in Brazil.

REMHU: Revista Interdisciplinar da Mobilidade Humana, vol. 28, no. 59 (May/Aug. 2020) [open access]
- Features a dossier on “LGBTI Migrants and Refugees,” with 8 articles in either English, Portuguese or Spanish.

"They Treated Us in Monstrous Ways": Sexual Violence against Men, Boys, and Transgender Women in the Syrian Conflict (Human Rights Watch, July 2020) [text]

Who is Protecting LGBTI Persons of Concern? Examining the Factors That Explain the Low Level of Implementation of the UNHCR’s AGD Policy in the MENA Region (CARFMS, July 2020) [text]
- Note: This paper was the runner-up in the CARFMS 2020 essay contest (undergraduate category).

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