Fleeing Homophobia (eBook, ePUB)

Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity and Asylum
Redaktion: Spijkerboer, Thomas

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Each year, thousands of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) asylum seekers apply for asylum in EU Member States.This book considers the position of LGBTI asylum seekers in European asylum law. Developing an encompassing approach to the topic, the book identifies and analyzes the main legal issues arising in relation to LGBTI people seeking asylum. It gives a state of the art overview of law in Europe, both at the level of European legislation and at the level of Member State practice.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Juli 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134098422
• Artikelnr.: 39166980

Autorenporträt

Thomas Spijkerboer is professor of migration law at VU University Amsterdam. He has published on gender and sexuality (Gender and Refugee Status, Ashgate 2000; Women and Immigration Law, with Sarah van Walsum, Routledge 2007). He also publishes on the role of courts in migration law, and on border deaths.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Fleeing Homophobia. Asylum claims related to sexual orientation and
gender identity in Europe, Sabine Jansen 2. Sexual Orientation and Refugee
Status Determination over the Past 20 Years: Unsteady Progress through
Standard Sequences?, Jenni Millbank 3. "Discretion" in sexuality-based
asylum cases: An adaptive phenomenon, Janna Wessels 4. Accommodation: Sur
place claims and the accommodation requirement, Hemme Battjes 5. Lesbian,
Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Refugees: Challenges in Refugee Status
Determination and Living Conditions in Turkey, Giulia Cragnolini 6.
Developing a Jurisprudence of Transgender Particular Socail Group, Laurie
Berg and Jenni Millbank 7. Normativity and Credibility of Sexual
Orientation in Assylum Decision Making, Louis Middelkoop 8. Invisible
Intersections: Queer Interventions and Same Sex Family Reunification under
the Rule of Assylum Law, Petra Sussner 9. Overcoming Problems with Sexual
Minority Refugee Claims: Is LGBT Cultural Competency Training the
Solution?, Nicole La Violette 10. Sexuality, normativity and asylum: An
agenda, Thomas Spijkerboer