Overview
- Provides an enhanced perspective on the experiences of LGBTI asylum seekers and refugees
- Covers three moments: Pre-flight, RSD and the process after granting refugee status
- Interdisciplinary focus with the predominance of international refugee law
- Includes various case studies from different countries
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Table of contents (18 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Before the Flight: Drivers, Reasons and Actors of Persecution
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Refugee Status Determination Process: States’ Implementation, Heterogeneity, Western Narratives and Sexual Orientation
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Granting Refugee Status: Reception, Accommodation, and Integration of (Recognised) LGBTI Refugees
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About this book
The first part discusses one of the most under-researched areas within the literature devoted to asylum claims based on sexual orientation and gender identity, namely the reasons behind LGBTI persons’ flight. It investigates the motives that drive LGBTI persons to leave their countries of origin and seek sanctuary elsewhere, the actors of persecution, and the status quo of LGBTI rights. Accordingly, an intersectional approach is employed so as to offer a comprehensive picture of how a host of factors beyond sexual orientation/gender identity impact this crucial first stage of LGBTI asylum seekers’ journey.
In turn, the second part explores the challenges that LGBTI asylum seekers face during the RSD process in countries of asylum. It first examines these countries’ interpretations and applications of the process in relation to the relevant UNHCR guidelines and questions the challenges including the dominance of Western conceptions and narratives of sexual identity in the asylum procedure, heterogeneous treatment concerning the definition of a particular social group, and the difficulties related to assessing one’s sexual orientation within the asylum procedure. It subsequently addresses the reasons for and potential solutions to these challenges.
The last part of the book focuses on the integration of LGBTI refugees into the countries of asylum. It first seeks to identify and describe the protection gaps that LGBTI refugees are currently experiencing, before turning to the reasons and potential remedies for them.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Maryna Shevtsova, Program officer at Civil Organization Parents' Initiative TERGO, Kyiv, Ukraine
Denise Venturi, Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Institute of Law, Politics and Development, Pisa, Italy and KU Leuven, Faculty of Law, Leuven, Belgium
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: LGBTI Asylum Seekers and Refugees from a Legal and Political Perspective
Book Subtitle: Persecution, Asylum and Integration
Editors: Arzu Güler, Maryna Shevtsova, Denise Venturi
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-91905-8
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Law and Criminology, Law and Criminology (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-91904-1Published: 18 January 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-91905-8Published: 06 December 2018
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 354
Topics: Human Rights, Migration, International Humanitarian Law, Law of Armed Conflict, Gender Studies, Gender, Sexuality and Law, Cross Cultural Psychology