04 February 2025

Thematic Focus: Sexual Orientation & Gender Identity

Opportunity:

Call for registration: 2025 Queer Displacements: Regional challenges, global solidarity, practical solutions, Melbourne, 4-5 September 2025 [info]
- The early bird deadline is 16 March 2025.

Short pieces:

Gender identity and migration in South Africa: A layered experience (Dejusticia Blog, Jan. 2025) [text]

How the Nationality and Borders Act is endangering queer asylum in Britain (openDemocracy, Jan. 2025) [text]

"How Trump could impact U.S. LGBTQ+ asylum rules," Context News, 24 Jan. 2025 [text]

Intersections of Vulnerability or Power?: Individual Efforts to Shelter LGBTIQ+ Displaced People in Beirut (Borders and Limitations, Nov. 2024) [text]

Book chapters & journal articles:

"Challenges and support for LGBTQIA+ refugees in Luxembourg and in the DACH countries," Chapter in Jahrbuch Migration und Gesellschaft = Yearbook Migration and Society 2023/2024 (transcript Verlag, Jan. 2025) [open access]
- Note: DACH countries = Germany, Austria & Switzerland. Scroll to p. 79.

"Coloniality in queer asylum: towards theorising ‘colonial surveillance’ and its resistances," Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, Latest Articles, 18 Jan. 2025 [open access]
- Focuses on Denmark & Germany.

"Combining Photovoice and Videovoice for Participatory Research: Visual Storytelling with LGBTQ+ Refugees and Migrants," Journal of Participatory Research Methods, vol. 5, no. 4 (Dec. 2024) [open access]
- Focuses on Brazil.

"Credibility Assessments in Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Asylum Cases: Evidence from a Quantitative Study of Case Law in Switzerland," Swiss Journal of Sociology, vol. 50, no. 3 (2024) [open access]

"(In)credibly queer? Assessments of asylum claims based on sexual orientation," Legal and Criminological Psychology, vol. 30, no. 1 (Feb. 2025) [open access]
- Focuses on Finland.

"Queer refugees and human rights: on the limits of recognition," Journal of Refugee Studies, Advance Articles, 24 Dec. 2024 [open access]

"Situation queer migration: displacement and a sense of belonging in Georgian queer migrants," Chapter in Jahrbuch Migration und Gesellschaft = Yearbook Migration and Society 2023/2024 (transcript Verlag, Jan. 2025) [open access]
- Scroll to p. 39.

"Solidarity test: challenges of forced LGBTIQ migration and activism in Central-Eastern European countries in the context of Russia’s war on Ukraine," European Societies, vol. 26, no. 2 (2024) [open access]

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