29 October 2025

Thematic Focus: Sexual Orientation & Gender Identity

Reports & book chapters:

Jurisprudence on LGBTIQ Applicants in International Protection, Fact Sheet, no. 39 (EU Agency for Asylum, Sept. 2025) [text]

LGBTIQ Applicants in Asylum and Reception Systems, Fact Sheet, no. 38 (EU Agency for Asylum, Sept. 2025) [text]

"Nature-Based Social Prescribing with LGBTQIA+ Asylum Seekers and Refugees: A Feasibility Study Using ‘Friends in Nature’," Chapter in Social Connection in Everyday Spaces (Bristol Univ. Press, Oct. 2025) [open access]
- Focuses on Australia.

Journal articles:

"Decoding Sexual Orientation in Refugee Status Determination: The Influence of Accounts of Emotions on Decision-Making in Sweden," International Migration, vol. 63, no. 5 (Sept. 2025) [open access]

"The (dis)advantages of (in)visibility: an analysis of the role of sexual orientation and gender identity in recent flows of forced migrants to Brazil," Comparative Migration Studies, 13:67 (Aug. 2025) [open access]

"Feeling Queer in Translation: Credibility and (dis)order in the Asylum Process," Social Text (Forthcoming) [postprint]
- Focuses on Greece.

"'Forced' Refugees versus 'Voluntary' Migrants: Deconstructing a Binary through SOGIESC Claims of Asylum," International Journal of Refugee Law, vol. 37, no. 2 (June 2025) [postprint]
- Note: Access to the full-text is embargoed until 23 July 2026.

"‘How would you define your sexuality?’ analyzing the questions asked in official asylum interviews with sexual minorities," Psychology, Crime & Law, Latest Articles, 18 Sept. 2025 [open access]
- Focuses on Finland.

"Queer Iranians in Iran and in exile: Negotiating identity following forced migration," Routed Magazine (July 2025) [text]

"Seeing it first-hand: interpreters’ insights from working with LGBTIQA+ individuals settling in Australia," Frontiers in Communication, 23 Oct. 2025 [open access]

Multimedia:

The aid sector’s LGBTQI+ blindspot (Rethinking Humanitarianism Podcast Series, 2 Oct. 2025) [access]

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