LGBTI Asylum Seekers and Refugees from a Legal and Political Perspective (eBook)

Arzu Güler, Adnan Menderes University, Department of International Relations, Isabeyli, Nazili/Aydin, TurkeyMaryna 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 

Arzu Güler, Maryna Shevtsova and Denise Venturi, Introduction.- Part I. Before the flight: Drivers, reasons and actors of persecution: Katherine Fox, Implementing Hostility and Acceptance: LGBTQ Persecution, Rights, and Mobility in the Context of Western Moral Entrepreneurship.- Edward J. Alessi, Sarilee Kahn, Sangeeta Chatterji, and Dean Manning, A Qualitative Exploration of the Child Abuse Experiences of Sexual and Gender Minority Refugees and Asylees in the United States and Canada.- Laine P. Munir, Fleeing Gender: Reasons for Displacement in Pakistan’s Transgender Community.- Alex Odlum, To Stay or to Go? Decision-making of LGBTQI Syrians in mixed migration flows.- Ailsa Winton, “I’ve got to go somewhere”: Queer displacement in northern Central America and southern Mexico.- Part II. Refugee status determination process: States’ implementation, heterogenity, Western narratives and sexual orientation: Arzu Güler, Refugee status determination process for the LGBTI asylum seekers: (in)consistencies of states’ implementations with UNHCR’s authoritative guidance.- Patricia Brazil and Samantha Arnold, LGBTI asylum applications in Ireland: status determination and barriers to protection.- Maria Guadalupe Begazo, The Membership of a Particular Social Group Ground in LGBTI Asylum Cases Under EU Law and European Case-Law: Just Another Example of Social Group or an Independent Ground?- Andrea Mrazova, Legal requirements to prove asylum claims based on sexual orientation: a comparison between the CJEU and ECtHR case law.- Kateri Berasi, Gay and lesbian asylum seekers in the United States: The interplay of sexual orientation identity development, reverse-covering, and mental health.- Katherine Fobear, “Wherever We Would Go, We Would Be Together” - The Challenges for Queer Refugee Couples Claiming Joint Asylum in Canada.- María Paula Castañeda Romero and Sofía Cardona Huerta, Seeking protection as a transgender refugee woman: from Honduras and El Salvador to Mexico.- Part III. Granting refugee status: Reception, accommodation, and integration of (recognised) LGBTI refugees: Betsy L. Fisher, Refugee Resettlement: A Protection Tool for LGBTI Refugees.- Nicholas Hersh, Enhancing UNHCR Protection for LGBTI Asylum-Seekers and Refugees in Morocco: Reflection and Strategies.- Hester K.V. Moore, “The atmosphere is oppressive”: investigating the intersection of violence with the cisgender Lesbian, Bisexual, and Queer women refugee community in Nairobi, Kenya.- Emma Bassetti, Integration challenges faced by transgender refugees in Italy.- Arzu Güler, Maryna Shevtsova and Denise Venturi, Conclusion.