13 December 2024

Thematic Focus: Sexual Orientation & Gender Identity

Short pieces:

"International protection for LGBT applicants," Law Society Gazette, 13 Nov. 2024 [text]

"'It's not a right' — Kenya blocking Canadians from resettling LGBTQ+ refugees," Yahoo News, 6 Dec. 2024 [text]

"The moral imperative to protect Lebanon’s LGBTIQ+ displaced," The New Humanitarian, 4 Nov. 2024 [text]

Reports:

Memory and trauma in LGBTQ+ women’s asylum claims on sexual orientation and gender identity (SOGI) grounds: disregarded, dismissed and denied, RLI Working Paper, no. 74 (Univ. of London, Dec. 2024) [text]
- Focuses on the UK.

Practical Guide on applicants with diverse sexual orientations, gender identities, gender expressions and sex characteristics (EU Agency for Asylum, Nov. 2024) [access]
- Follow link to access the three complementary parts of the guide that focus respectively on cross-cutting-elements, examination-procedure and reception. There is also a related information note.

Journal articles:

"'I Had the Feeling I Had the Rehearsal with You': Autoethnographic Reflections on Preparing Applicants for Their Asylum Interview within LGBTIQ+ Organisations," DiGeSt: Journal of Diversity and Gender Studies, vol. 11, no. 2 (2024) [open access]
- Focuses on Belgium.

"Legal hostilities: Navigating queerness, emotion, and space in asylum law," Crime, Media, Culture: An International Journal, OnlineFirst, 20 Oct. 2024 [open access]
- Focuses on the UK.

"LGBTQ Asylum and Refugee Protection: Problems and Prospects," Capital University Law Review, vol. 52, no. 1 (Oct. 2024) [full-text]

"Missiles and Misfits: Reimagining Home and Security for Queer Internally Displaced Persons From South Lebanon," Journal on Migration and Human Security, vol. 12, no. 4 (2024) [full-text]

"Queering the humanitarian principles of neutrality and impartiality: Implications for humanitarian action, IHL effectiveness and gender justice," International Review of the Red Cross, vol. 106, no. 925 [full-text]

"Seeking Asylum in the United States: Intersectional Analysis of the Experiences of Transgender Women from the Central American Northern Triangle," Social Sciences, vol. 13, no. 11 (Nov. 2024) [open access]

"Surviving Exile: Queer Displaced People’s Lived Experiences of Aid, Risks and Coping in Kakuma," Gender Issues, vol. 41 (2024) [open access

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