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‘As queer refugees, we are out of category, we do not belong to one, or the other' : LGBTIQ+ refugees’ experiences in ‘ambivalent’ queer spaces (2022)
Journal Article

While over the last twenty years geographers of sexuality have explored the racialisation of
queer spaces, the experiences of LGBTIQ+ refugees in those spaces are rather absent in these
studies. At the same time, while in recent years there has bee... Read More about ‘As queer refugees, we are out of category, we do not belong to one, or the other' : LGBTIQ+ refugees’ experiences in ‘ambivalent’ queer spaces.

Rezension : Petra Sußner, Flucht – Geschlecht – Sexualität. Eine menschenrechtsbasierte Perspektive auf Grundversorgung und Asylberechtigung (Review : Petra Sußner, Escape - Gender - Sexuality. A human rights-based perspective on basic services and the right to asylum) (2021)
Journal Article
Held, N. (2021). Rezension : Petra Sußner, Flucht – Geschlecht – Sexualität. Eine menschenrechtsbasierte Perspektive auf Grundversorgung und Asylberechtigung (Review : Petra Sußner, Escape - Gender - Sexuality. A human rights-based perspective on basic services and the right to asylum). Zeitschrift für Ausländerrecht und Ausländerpolitik, 2021(11-12), 418-420

Book review

In or out? A queer intersectional approach to ‘Particular Social Group’ membership and credibility in SOGI asylum claims in Germany and the UK (2018)
Journal Article
Dustin, M., & Held, N. (2018). In or out? A queer intersectional approach to ‘Particular Social Group’ membership and credibility in SOGI asylum claims in Germany and the UK. GenIus (Bologna), 2018(2), 74-87

Individuals claiming asylum on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity (SOGI) in Europe must prove
to the authorities in question that they are ‘credible’ and meet the Refugee Convention criteria. In most cases, they
do this by demonstra... Read More about In or out? A queer intersectional approach to ‘Particular Social Group’ membership and credibility in SOGI asylum claims in Germany and the UK.

‘They look at you like an insect that wants to be squashed’ : an ethnographic account of the racialized sexual spaces of Manchester’s Gay Village (2016)
Journal Article
Held, N. (2017). ‘They look at you like an insect that wants to be squashed’ : an ethnographic account of the racialized sexual spaces of Manchester’s Gay Village. Sexualities, 20(5-6), 535-557. https://doi.org/10.1177/1363460716676988

This article explores the interactive relationship between sexuality, ‘race’ and space. By drawing on ethnographic research with bisexual and lesbian women, it looks at the lived experiences of the intersections of sexuality and ‘race’ in a particula... Read More about ‘They look at you like an insect that wants to be squashed’ : an ethnographic account of the racialized sexual spaces of Manchester’s Gay Village.

Comfortable and safe spaces? Gender, sexuality and 'race' in night-time leisure spaces (2015)
Journal Article
Held, N. (2015). Comfortable and safe spaces? Gender, sexuality and 'race' in night-time leisure spaces. Emotion, Space and Society, 14, 33-42. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.emospa.2014.12.003

This article aims to contribute to the fields of emotional geographies and geographies of sexualities by exploring the relationship between emotions and gender, sexuality, and ‘race’ in sexualised night-time leisure spaces. By drawing on ethnographic... Read More about Comfortable and safe spaces? Gender, sexuality and 'race' in night-time leisure spaces.

Researching "race" in lesbian space : a critical reflection (2009)
Journal Article
Held, N. (2009). Researching "race" in lesbian space : a critical reflection. Journal of Lesbian Studies, 13(2), 204-215. https://doi.org/10.1080/10894160802695379

Feminist researchers have acknowledged that racial differences between researcher and researched impact on the research process; however, there has been little concern with how “race” is actually made in/through the research process. If we think “rac... Read More about Researching "race" in lesbian space : a critical reflection.