Publication: FMR 42 now online – Sexual orientation and gender identity and the protection of forced migrants

Forced Migration Review issue 42, on ‘Sexual orientation and gender identity and the protection of forced migrants’, is now online at www.fmreview.org/sogi

The design of FMR is now A5 (half of A4). In order to print it out properly, please use your printer’s ‘Booklet’ setting.

Around the world, people face abuse, arbitrary arrest, extortion, violence, severe discrimination and lack of official protection because of their sexual orientation and/or gender identity. This latest issue of FMR includes 26 articles on the abuse of rights of forced migrants who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender or intersex. Authors discuss both the challenges faced and examples of good practice in securing protection for LGBTI forced migrants.

The full list of contents, with web links, is given below.

FMR 42 will be available online and in print in English, French, Spanish and Arabic.

An expanded contents listing for this issue – FMR42 Listing – is available at www.fmreview.org/sogi/FMR42listing.pdf

Timing of distribution of this issue: Please note that if you are a regular

FMR42 Listing is a four-sided expanded contents listing of all articles in this issue of FMR. It provides for each article: the title, the author(s) and their affiliation, the introductory sentences and a link to the full article online. It will be available online and in print in English, French, Spanish and Arabic.

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We would like to thank Rachel Levitan of HIAS for her invaluable assistance as special advisor on this issue. We are also very grateful to the Arcus Foundation, the Swiss Federal Department of Foreign Affairs, UNHCR and the US Department of State’s Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration for their funding support for this issue. Thanks also to those individual readers who have donated to support FMR.

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FORCED MIGRATION REVIEW issue 42 – Contents

(Note: This issue does not include any ‘general’ articles.)

LGBT: equally entitled to human rights and dignity
Anne C Richard (Assistant Secretary of State for Population, Refugees, and Migration in the United States Department of State)
www.fmreview.org/sogi/richard

Ensuring protection for LGBTI Persons of Concern
Volker Türk (Director of International Protection, UNHCR)
www.fmreview.org/sogi/tuerk

Mental health challenges of LGBT forced migrants
Ariel Shidlo and Joanne Ahola (Research Institute Without Walls)
www.fmreview.org/sogi/shidlo-ahola

The Rainbow Group in Mae La camp
Moses (Kachin refugee/Australian Catholic University)
www.fmreview.org/sogi/moses

“On what grounds?” LGBTQ asylum claims in Canada
Sharalyn Jordan (Simon Fraser University) and Chris Morrissey (Rainbow Refugee)
www.fmreview.org/sogi/jordan-morrissey

LGBTI asylum claims: the Central and Eastern European perspective
Anna Śledzińska-Simon (University of Wrocław) and Krzysztof Śmiszek (University of Warsaw)
www.fmreview.org/sogi/sledzinskasimon-smiszek

Global human rights frameworks applicable to LGBTI migrants
Shana Tabak (American University’s International Human Rights Law Clinic) and Rachel Levitan (HIAS)
www.fmreview.org/sogi/tabak-levitan-frameworks

LGBTI refugees: the Brazilian case
Henrique Rabello de Carvalho (LGBTI Rights Commission of the Brazilian Bar Association)
www.fmreview.org/sogi/decarvalho

Sexual orientation and gender identity: developments in EU law
Evangelia (Lilian) Tsourdi (Université Libre de Bruxelles)
www.fmreview.org/sogi/tsourdi

LGBT refugee protection in the UK: from discretion to belief?
Amanda Gray and Alexandra McDowall (UNHCR UK)
www.fmreview.org/sogi/gray-mcdowall

Seeking asylum in the UK: lesbian perspectives
Claire Bennett (University of Southampton) and Felicity Thomas (Exeter University)
www.fmreview.org/sogi/bennett-thomas

Barriers to justice in the UK
Charlotte Mathysse (University of Sussex/Kenya Red Cross)
www.fmreview.org/sogi/mathysse

Asylum for persecuted homosexuals in the Republic of Korea
Andrew Wolman (Hankuk University of Foreign Studies)
www.fmreview.org/sogi/wolman

Challenges to producing LGB-specific Country of Origin information
Christian Pangilinan (refugee legal aid lawyer)
www.fmreview.org/sogi/pangilinan

Assessing transgender asylum claims
Jhana Bach (Lancaster University)
www.fmreview.org/sogi/bach

Kosovo: what does the future hold for LGBT people?
Agathe Fauchier (lawyer)
www.fmreview.org/sogi/fauchier

City planning for sexual diversity: new policies in Bogotá
Marcela Ceballos and Juan Carlos Prieto (Office of the District Planning Department, Bogotá)
www.fmreview.org/sogi/ceballos-prieto

Towards inclusive resettlement for LGBTI refugees
Jennifer Rumbach (International Organization for Migration)
www.fmreview.org/sogi/rumbach

LGBT refugee resettlement in the US: emerging best practices
Scott Portman and Daniel Weyl (Heartland Alliance International)
www.fmreview.org/sogi/portman-weyl

LGBTI migrants in immigration detention
Shana Tabak (American University’s International Human Rights Law Clinic) and Rachel Levitan (HIAS)
www.fmreview.org/sogi/tabak-levitan-detention

A model immigration detention facility for LGBTI?
Christina Fialho (Community Initiatives for Visiting Immigrants in Confinement)
www.fmreview.org/sogi/fialho

Identity and integration in Israel and Kenya
Yiftach Millo (HIAS)
www.fmreview.org/sogi/millo

Protection in the city: some good practice in Nairobi
Duncan Breen (Human Rights First) and Yiftach Millo (HIAS)
www.fmreview.org/sogi/breen-millo

Gender identity and disaster response in Nepal
Kyle Knight (journalist) and Courtney Welton-Mitchell (University of Denver)
www.fmreview.org/sogi/knight-weltonmitchell

LGBT aid workers: deployment dilemmas
Anon
www.fmreview.org/sogi/anon

Grantmaking for SOGI programmes
Andrew S Park (Wellspring Advisors, LLC)
www.fmreview.org/sogi/park