Thematic Focus: Sexual Orientation & Gender Identity

Short pieces:

For Lesbians, No Refuge in the Refugee Camp (USCRI, April 2025) [text]

Petition EN7163: Asylum for Gender and Sexual Minorities from the United States (Parliament of Australia, April 2025) [text]

UNHCR: Protecting LGBTIQ+ refugees fleeing from persecution and discrimination (UNHCR, May 2025) [text]

- Statement marking the 2025 International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia and Transphobia, attributed to UN High Commissioner for Refugees, Filippo Grandi.

Reports:

Beyond protection: Designing intersectional humanitarian response to LGBTQI+ displacement in Poland (Humanitarian Leadership Academy et al., Feb. 2025) [text via ReliefWeb]

*Key challenges faced by LGBTI asylum applicants in the EU (European Parliament, April 2025) [text]

Protection against violence and discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity in relation to forced displacement: Report of the Independent Expert on protection against violence and discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity, Graeme Reid, UN Doc. No. A/HRC/59/43 (UN Human Rights Council, April 2025) [access]

- Follow link for multiple language versions.

Journal articles:

"Adjudicando protección: el proceso de refugio para personas LGBTQI+ en Sudamérica," Relaciones internacionales, no. 58 (Feb.-Mayo 2025) [open access]

"A Doctrinal and Newspaper Data Analysis of UK Policy for LGBTQ+ Asylum Seekers Following the Enactment of the Nationality and Boarders Act 2022," Societies, vol. 15, no. 4 (April 2025) [open access]

"Gender Based Violence and LGBTQI+ Migrants: Assessing Visibility/Invisibility Tactics through the Italian Reception System," Partecipazione e Conflitto, vol. 18, no. 1 (2025) [open access]

"Gender-Based Violence, Migration and (Dis)Empowerment: Women and Transwomen Migrants in the Americas," Partecipazione e Conflitto, vol. 18, no. 1 (2025) [open access]

"I Won't Give You a Story of Suffering: Queer Migrants' Everyday Resistance in İstanbul," Partecipazione e Conflitto, vol. 18, no. 1 (2025) [open access]

"'The Truth of Oneself': Governing Homosexual Asylum Seekers Through Confession," Law, Culture and the Humanities, OnlineFirst, 29 March 2025 [open access]

- Focuses on Europe.

"You are a gay man, and you’re also Christian – how is this possible? Homosecularism, religion and LGBTIQ+ asylum in the UK," Ethnic and Racial Studies, Latest Articles, 7 April 2025 [open access]

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Related post:

- Thematic Focus: Sexual Orientation & Gender Identity (19 March 2025)