17 December 2025

Thematic Focus: Sexual Orientation & Gender Identity

Short pieces:

"Kenyan LGBTQ+ Safe Houses 'Overwhelmed' as Cuts Hit Refugee Camps," Context News, 28 Oct. 2025 [text]

Towards inclusive protection and access to asylum for LGBTI persons in the Republic of Moldova (Council of Europe, Nov. 2025) [text]

What Labour’s migration reforms mean for LGBTQ+ asylum seekers (The Conversation, Dec. 2025) [text]
- Focuses on the UK.

Reports & journal articles:

"Gender Identity, Asylum and the ECHR: A Critical Doctrinal Analysis of Extraterritorial Gender Rights," Amicus Curiae, vol. 7, no. 1 (2025) [open access]

Impact of US Refugee Admissions Overhaul on LGBTQI+ Refugees (UCLA Williams Institute, Oct. 2025) [text]

"Law and livability: interrogating discourses on queer Nigerian asylum seekers and the German asylum law," African Identities, vol. 23, no. 4 (2025) [open access]

"MI v Switzerland: consolidating jurisprudence on asylum on grounds of sexual orientation European Court of Human Rights (Chamber): Judgment of 12 November 2024," European Human Rights Law Review, vol. 6 (2025) [info]
- Note: The full-text will become available when the article is officially published 11 Jan. 2026.

"Presumption of dishonesty: Epistemic injustice towards asylum seekers," Ethical Perspectives (Forthcoming) [postprint]
- Focuses on The Netherlands.

"Rethinking Queer Migrations and the Global City: Refugee Resettlement and World Making in Buenos Aires, Argentina," The Professional Geographer, vol. 77, no. 6 (2025) [open access]

"Self‑Selection Among Sexual Orientation Refugees to Sweden: The Role of Support Organisations in Destination Countries," Nordic Journal of Migration Research, vol. 16, no. 1 (2026) [open access]

"Sexuality and Asylum: Progress and Ambivalence in the Netherlands, 1979–1986," Journal of Migration History, vol. 11, no. 3 (2025) [open access]

"Transnational ties: LGBTQ+ rights, migration, and legal frameworks in Thailand and India," Frontiers in Human Dynamics, 2 Nov. 2025 [open access]

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