Ahola and Shidlo, ‘Mental Health Challenges of LGBT Forced Migrants’, 2013
- Category: Literature
- Source: Academic
- Subject: Sexual Orientation/Sexuality, Gender Identity, Intersex, Refugee/Asylum, Migration, Human Rights, LGBT+
- Place: International
- Year: 2013
- File: shidlo-ahola
- URL: https://www.fmreview.org/sites/fmr/files/FMRdownloads/en/sogi/shidlo-ahola.pdf
Joanne Ahola and Ariel Shidlo, ‘Mental health challenges of LGBT forced migrants’ in ‘Sexual orientation and gender identity and the protection of forced migrants’, Forced Migration Review (42), 2013
Abstract
Many LGBT forced migrants have significant and sometimes incapacitating psychological scars. Mental health providers can assist in documenting the psychological impact of anti-LGBT persecution and its impact on the ability to secure refugee status.