Project Friends
A number of experts involved in asylum, human rights, socio-legal studies and SOGI, as well as NGO representatives and individual asylum claimants and refugees, were invited to become SOGICA Project Friends during the life of the project. Coming from a variety of backgrounds, they interacted with the team and with each other to provide information, stimulate debate and help to disseminate the project’s outcomes. In this way, during the life of the project and after its formal conclusion in 2020, the project’s friends, working with the research team and the Advisory Board members, became the first European SOGICA network. SOGICA Project Friends (bold indicates whether main contact was the individual or the organisation):
Aderonke Apata, African Rainbow Family
Africa Arcigay, Vercelli
Arcigay Agora’ Pesaro – Urbino
Arcigay – Segreteria Nazionale, Manuela Macario e Roberto Muzzetta
Samantha Arnold, European Migration Network Ireland and Economic and Social Research Institute
Avvocato di strada (Tutela legale gratuita alle persone senza fissa dimora), Bologna
Helen Baillot
Marco Balboni, Università di Bologna
Baroness Liz Barker, House of Lords
Claire Bennett, nfpSynergy
Lidia Bonifati, University of Bologna
Jude Boyles
Joe Brady
Allan Briddock, Barrister, One Pump Court
Lucy Bryson, Refugee & Migrant Forum, Brighton & Hove City Council
Dany Carnassale, University of Padova
Lord Michael Cashman, House of Lords
S Chelvan, Barrister, No5 Chambers
Princess Chiney, Asylum Aid Protection Gap Campaign
Valentina Coletta, MIT Movimento Identità Trans
Prof Davina Cooper, University of Kent
Jonathan Cooper, Doughty Street Chambers
Alessia Coracci, Associazione Mondodonna onlus
Prof Heaven Crawley, Coventry University
Sarah Crowther, Refugees in Effective and Active Partnership (REAP)
Benjamin Dix, PositiveNegatives and Why Comics?
Tina Dixson, Human Rights Advocate
Lisa Doyle, Refugee Council
Lord Alf Dubs, House of Lords
Georgina Firth, Lancaster University
Gabriella Friso, Certi Diritti
GaGa, Vicenza
Mimi Gashi, Sahir House
Marco Gattuso, Articolo29 and Genius
Avv. Giovanna Carlotta Genito
Dr Calogero Giametta, Aix-Marseille University
Prof Geoff Gilbert, University of Essex
Prof Guy S Goodwin-Gill, University of Oxford
Moud Gouba, Micro Rainbow
María Helga Guðmundsdóttir, Samtökin ’78 – The National Queer Organization of Iceland
Prof Colin Harvey, Queens University Belfast
Rosa Heimer, EpsiLon
Stephanie Huber, Asylum Research Centre Foundation
Immigrazioni e Omosessualità – Progetto IO, CIG – Comitato d’Iniziativa Gay – Arcigay Milano
Sajida Ismail, Manchester Metropolitan University
Stephan Jäkel, Schwulenberatung Berlin
Sabine Jansen, COC Nederland
Surat-Shaan Knan, Rainbow Pilgrims
Prof Eleonore Kofman, Middlesex University
Lesbian Immigration Support Group
LeTRa – Beratungsstelle und Zentrum des Lesbentelefon e.V.
Luna Lara Liboni, Coalizione Italiana Libertà e Diritti Civili (CILD)
Prof Nora Markard, Universität Hamburg
Giuseppe Mascia, designer
Jonathan Mastellari, MigraBO LGBT
Giuseppe Masullo, Università di Salerno
Lisa Matthews, Right to Remain
Keelin McCarthy, Lamb Building
Dr Katie McQuaid, University of Leeds
La Migration, Palermo
Prof Jenni Millbank, University of Technology Sydney
Ibrahim Mokdad, Sofra Cologne
Richard Mole, University College London
Dr Violeta Moreno-Lax, Queen Mary University of London, the Refugee Law Observatory and the Refugee Law Initiative
Dr. Maria Federica Moscati, Rete Lenford – Avvocatura per i diritti LGBTI
Annalisa Napoli, Translator/Interpreter EN>IT
Suryia Nayak, University of Salford
Jennifer Louise New, University of Liverpool
Frances Nicholson, Freelance researcher on refugee protection issues
Silvio Nocera, FIDEM
Cynthia Orchard, Asylum Aid
Roberta Orlando – Interdisciplinary Artist and LGBTQI Activist
Patrizia Palermo, Italian Ministry of Justice
Partnership Community Safety Team, Brighton & Hove City Council
Giacomo Giorgini Pignatelli, Giuridico Cassero
Kimahli Powell, Rainbow Railroad
Senthorun Raj, Keele University
Catherine Robinson, One Pump Court
Nick Scott-Flynn, Scott-Flynn Consulting
Prof Thomas Spijkerboer, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Clare Summerskill, Stand-up, writer and singer-songwriter
Mandy Taylor, European Council on Refugees and Exiles (ECRE)
Dr Judith Townsend, University of Sussex and Sanctuary on Sea
Lilian Tsourdi, Refugee Studies Centre
Marlen Vahle, Kölner Flüchtlingsrat
Denise Venturi, Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna
Alice Webb, Asylum Support Appeals Project (ASAP)
Janna Wessels, Justus Liebig Universität Gießen
Richard Williams, Sanctuary on Sea
Colin Yeo, Garden Court Chambers and Free Movement
Leila Zadeh, UKLGIG
Anbid Zaman
Livio Zilli, International Commission of Jurists
SOGICA thanks staff at the School of Law, Politics and Sociology at the University of Sussex for their support for this project. And we are particularly grateful to our creative Friends: Giuseppe Mascia for creating our project logo and for other design work; Yasmin Kapadia for her input to our project materials; Rachael Phelps and Eleanor Griggs for their work on the SOGICA poster and other resources; and Silan Anil, Ammar Cheema, Khalid Khan, Ali Kassem and Shahrzad Fouladvand for the support with translations.
We are also thankful for the time and dedication offered by those doing placements with SOGICA, namely Ssu-Chi Ho (Goldsmiths, University of London), Valentina Canepa (University of Sussex), Elif Dama (University of Istanbul), Silvia Ciacchi (University of Trento), Ibrahim Abdella, Marita Haakonsen (University of Sussex), Lisa Harrington (University of Sussex), Melody Greaves (Wilfrid Laurier, Ontario), Alba Trabandt (Sussex/Freie Universität Berlin), Oscar Kennedy, Federico Di Persio (University of Bologna), Isabel Soloaga (University of Sussex), Alessandro Pigoni (University of Sussex/University of Bologna), Grace Jansen in de Wal (Wilfrid Laurier, Ontario) and Olivia DiLeo (Wilfrid Laurier, Ontario). Thanks also to our brilliant and supportive research assistants Rosa Jones and Vítor Lopes Andrade.