Citizens Advice Liverpool, ‘”You feel like a nobody”‘, 2018
- Category: Reports
- Source: NGOs
- Subject: Sexual Orientation/Sexuality, Gender Identity, Intersex, Refugee/Asylum, Migration, Human Rights, LGBT+
- Place: United Kingdom
- Year: 2018
- File: 61ace9_176cbc1bcd3e4bedb45aef0376f19e23
- URL: https://www.citizensadviceliverpool.org.uk/lgbt-research-project
Citizens Advice Liverpool, ‘”You feel like a nobody”: An investigation into the support and advice needs of LGBT+ Asylum Seekers in Merseyside’, Liverpool, 2018
Abstract:
This report presents evidence about the support and advice needs of LGBT+ asylum seekers in Liverpool. The findings and recommendations it contains are based on the results of a series of seventeen interviews based on set questions with individuals who identify as LGBT+ and have claimed asylum in this country, not necessarily on the basis of their sexuality or gender identity. Similarly, set questions were asked of eighteen front line workers from LGBT+ and asylum organisations.
Despite the development of extremely valuable services provided by many groups and organisations in Liverpool, the results presented here suggest that individuals continue to face considerable barriers both to accessing the help they need to enable them to live with dignity and respect in this city and the legal advice required to assure a fair hearing of their asylum claims in court.