Credibility Assessment in Queer Asylum Cases

Believe It or Not?
1. Auflage 2027
ISBN: 978-1-5292-5591-1
Verlag: Bristol University Press

Buch, Englisch, 352 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm

Available Open Access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence

Across many jurisdictions in the Global North, lack of credibility is the primary basis for rejecting sexual orientation, gender identity/expression and sex characteristics (SOGIESC) asylum applications. This edited collection examines how disbelief poses one of the most complex challenges for queer asylum seekers worldwide.

The contributions in this book highlight how assessments in various asylum systems in the Global North are based on stereotypical, feeling-centric and western-centric models, that fail to reflect the complexities of sexual and gender diversity, often perpetuating unlawful bias and leading to unjust decisions. Bringing together theory and practice, the collection explores these issues across diverse geographical contexts, employing a multidisciplinary approach.

Crucially, the collection offers a variety of critical and empirical interventions, advocating for a fairer and more inclusive asylum system and adherence to human rights and refugee law.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Jansen, Sabine

Zisakou, Sophia

Vige Grønningsæter, Andrea

Fletcher, Claire

Gröndahl, Aino

Weitere Mitwirkende

Ferreira, Nuno

Tissandier-Nasom, Elias

Bergsma, Louisa

Geurts, Roos

García Rodríguez, Diego

Neumann, Annelie

Kassa Bekele, Million

Walmsley, Jessica

Intzipeoglou, Ifigeneia

Rifath, Raawiyah

van Kessel, Leens

Field, Abby

Powell, Alex

Tomaselli, Davide

Fachgebiete

• Rechtswissenschaften Öffentliches Recht Sicherheitsrecht Ausländerrecht, Asylrecht, Flüchtlingsrecht

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction – Aino Gröndahl, Andrea Vige Grønningsæter, Claire Fletcher, Sabine Jansen and Sophia Zisakou

1. Current Context – Nuno Ferreira

Part 1: Differing Perspectives on Credibility Assessment

2. Queer Enough for the Netherlands? The Role of Stereotypes in Queer Asylum Decisions and Its Outcome – Million Kassa Bekele

3. Sexuality Through the Kaleidoscope: Cultural Translation and Transnational Sexual Diversities – Alex Powell

4. Afghan Gay Men: Assessment of the Need for International Protection – Iene Maveau

5. Worlds Apart: A Stumbling Credibility Assessment in a Trans Asylum Claim – Willemijn Van Kempen

Part 2: Proving SOGIESC

6. Is Your Love Life a Credible Story? Profoundness in Dutch LGB+ Procedure – Roos Geurts and Louisa Bergsma

7. A Child’s Rights Approach to the Assessment of Credibility in Children’s SOGIESC Asylum Cases – Elias Tissandier-Nasom

8. Heteronormativity of the European Border Regime – Annelie Neumann

9. Challenging Homosecularism: Faith, Spirituality and LGBTIQ+ Asylum in the UK – Diego Garcia Rodriguez

Part 3: Challenging Stereotypes

10. Credibility Assessments and Trauma-Informed Methods – Raawiyah Rifath

11. Beyond Stereotypes: Dismantling Rape Mythology in LGBTI+ Refugee Asylum Claims – Iphigeneia Intzipeoglou

12. Opening Up Possibilities for SOGIESC Asylum Seekers: (In)credible Stories Between Judicial Biases and European Sexual Imaginaries – Davide Tomaselli

13. The Cycle of Rejection: How Has the Digitization of the UK Asylum System Impacted LGBTQI+ Asylum Seekers? – Jess Walmsley

Part 4: Interventions, Improvement and More Inclusive Assessment

14. Preventing Stereotyping in Credibility Assessments With SOGIESC Asylum Claimants: A Toolbox for Decision-Makers – Leens Van Kessel

15. Closing Gaps: Using Intersectionality To Ensure Narrative Justice for SOGIESC Asylum Claims – Noam Falk

16. Re-Envisioning Terminology for a More Inclusive Credibility Assessment – Abby Field

17. What’s It Worth: Community Against the Machine. A Study of Non-Stereotypical Queer Realities in the Asylum Procedure – Marty Huber and Sophia Weiser

Part 5:

18. Concluding Remarks – Aino Gröndahl, Andrea Vige Grønningsæter, Claire Fletcher, Sabine Jansen and Sophia Zisakou

Über Autor(innen)

Powell, Alex
Alex Powell is Associate Professor of Law at the University of Warwick.

Ferreira, Nuno
Nuno Ferreira is Professor of Law at the University of Sussex.

Sabine Jansen, asylum lawyer at COC Netherlands, the Dutch LGBTIQ+ rights organisation.

Sophia Zisakou, asylum lawyer, PhD candidate at the Department of Sociology of Law at Lund University.

Andrea Vige Grønningsæter, Associate Professor at the Faculty of Law, University of Oslo.

Claire Fletcher, Visiting Fellow, Oxford Brookes and Policy Manager at Micro Rainbow International Foundation.

Aino Gröndahl, asylum lawyer at RFSL, the Swedish Federation for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer and Intersex Rights.