07 October 2022

Thematic Focus: Sexual Orientation & Gender Identity

Blog posts & press:

LGBTQ Asylum Seekers Still Facing Grave Dangers Due to Title 42 (Human Rights First Blog, Aug. 2022) [text]
- Focuses on the US.

"The situation as a Ugandan LGBTQ+ refugee in Kenya is as terrible as you can imagine," Thomson Reuters Foundation News, 17 Aug. 2022 [text]

Reports & journal articles:

Anti-Trafficking Review, no. 19 (2022) [open access]
- Special issue on "Migration, Sexuality, and Gender Identity." Includes the following articles:
1) 'Not A Sufficient Reason': LGBTQ asylum seekers in the Russian asylum system
2) Queering Protracted Displacement: Lessons from Internally Displaced Persons in the Philippines
3) Queerness, Sex Work, and Refugee Status in Nairobi: A conversation with Queer Sex Workers Initiative for Refugees
4) 'They Kill Us Trans Women': Migration, informal labour, and sex work among trans Venezuelan asylum seekers and undocumented migrants in Brazil during COVID-19

Expert Convening on LGBTQI+ Refugees and Asylum Seekers: Summary and Recommendations (UCLA School of Law, June 2022) [text]

"LGBTQI+ accessibility and visibility in a Dutch asylum seeker centre," Routed Magazine, no. OMC22 (June 2022) [text]

LGBTQI+ Refugees and Asylum Seekers: A review of research and data needs (UCLA School of Law, July 2022) [text]
- See also related press release.

"A Particular Social Group: The Inadequacy of U.S. Asylum Laws for Transgender Claimants," Human Rights Brief, vol. 25, no. 2 (2022) [full-text]

"Queer and present danger: understanding the disparate impacts of disasters on LGBTQ+ communities," Disasters, vol. 46, no. 4 (Oct. 2022) [free full-text]

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