Dyck, ‘African Asylum Seeker Research Project Report’, 2019

Dyck, J., ‘LGBT African Asylum Seeker Research Project Report. The findings of the LGBT African Asylum Seeker Research Project’, Funded by the Big Lottery Fund, Commissioned by the Metropolitan Community Church of North London, supported by UKLGIG and the Enfield LGBT Network, September 2019.

Introduction:
This report results from a story that began in 2012, at a small church in Camden Town, North London, which will be told immediately below. The document presents the findings of 33 interviews that took place, in 2018 and early 2019, at that church. These conversations were with LGBT African asylum seekers, and concerned the issues they face in their applications for asylum in the UK. There is also a particular angle on how faith interacts with these issues, though the study is by no means limited to issues of faith.