All Outputs (36)

Policy Brief: Anerkennung von Traumata im Asylprozess von lesbischen Frauen (2024)
Report

Geflüchtete sind häufig von schweren psychischen Traumata und psychischen Er- krankungen betroffen – darunter wiederkehrende Depressionen, dissoziative Störungen, Panikstörungen, generalisierte Angststörungen, soziale Ängste, traumatische Hirnver- le... Read More about Policy Brief: Anerkennung von Traumata im Asylprozess von lesbischen Frauen.

Intersections of gender, sexuality and ‘race’ in queer asylum claims (2024)
Book Chapter

Drawing on one of the author’s own experiences with the asylum system and findings from a major European study on queer asylum claims, this chapter looks at intersections of gender, sexuality and ‘race’ in asylum claims by queer refugees in Europe. I... Read More about Intersections of gender, sexuality and ‘race’ in queer asylum claims.

Challenges and support for LGBTQIA+ refugees in Luxembourg and in the DACH countries D: Germany – A:Austria – CH: Switzerland (2024)
Book Chapter

Trans*, inter* und nicht-binär*geschlechtliche Menschen im Kontext von Migration, Flucht und Asyl (2024)
Book Chapter

Researching "race" in lesbian space: a critical reflection (2022)
Book Chapter

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.

Sexuality, gender and asylum: refugees at a crossroads (2022)
Journal Article

Editorial: sexuality, gender and asylum: refugees at a crossroads (2022)
Other

‘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

Book review

Queering asylum in Europe : legal and social experiences of seeking international protection on grounds of sexual orientation and gender identity (2021)
Book
Danisi, C., Dustin, M., Ferreira, N., & Held, N. (2021). Queering asylum in Europe : legal and social experiences of seeking international protection on grounds of sexual orientation and gender identity. Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-69441-8

This two-volume open-access book offers a theoretically and empirically-grounded portrayal of the experiences of people claiming international protection in Europe on the basis of their sexual orientation or gender identity (SOGI). It shows how Europ... Read More about Queering asylum in Europe : legal and social experiences of seeking international protection on grounds of sexual orientation and gender identity.

”They sent me to the mountain” : the role of space, faith and support groups for LGBTIQ+ asylum claimants (2021)
Book Chapter

Queering asylum in Europe : a survey report (2020)
Report

This report discusses the data gathered through two surveys carried out in the context of the SOGICA project. SOGICA – Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Claims of Asylum: A European human rights challenge – is a four-year (2016-2020) research pr... Read More about Queering asylum in Europe : a survey report.

32 recommendations to the European Commission on the new EU LGBTI+ equality strategy (2020)
Report

Our overriding concern is that the EU LGBTI+ Equality Strategy should acknowledge the need to prioritise and protect the rights and needs of LGBTI+ asylum claimants and refugees. SOGICA (Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Claims of Asylum: A Euro... Read More about 32 recommendations to the European Commission on the new EU LGBTI+ equality strategy.

30 recommendations for improving the lives of people claiming asylum on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity (SOGI) in the UK (2020)
Report

It is now nearly forty years since the first SOGI asylum claims were recognised, and a great deal of progress has been made at a global and European level. There is increased awareness of SOGI persecution as well as examples of good policy and practi... Read More about 30 recommendations for improving the lives of people claiming asylum on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity (SOGI) in the UK.

30 Empfehlungen zur Verbesserung des Lebens von Menschen, die aufgrund von ihrer sexuellen Orientierung oder Geschlechtsidentität (SOGI) in Deutschland Asyl beantragen (2020)
Report

Coronavirus exacerbates LGBTQI refugees’ isolation and trauma (2020)
Journal Article

In their responses to COVID-19, countries need to put safeguarding mechanisms in place to protect vulnerable groups.

Queere geflüchtete und die Coronakrise : “Ich habe mich noch nie einsamer gefühlt” (2020)
Journal Article

The Wrong Turn; a conversation (2020)
Journal Article

LGBTQI+ asylum claimants face extreme social isolation in Germany (2019)
Journal Article

LGBTQI+ people seeking asylum in Germany are isolated, inadequately housed, and at risk of violence.

Better legal and social support needed for LGBTQI+ people seeking asylum in Germany (2019)
Journal Article