Giametta, ‘The spectre of colonialism for queer asylum seekers’, 2017
- Category: Literature
- Source: Academic
- Subject: Sexual Orientation/Sexuality, Gender Identity, Refugee/Asylum, Ethnicity/Race, Human Rights, LGBT+
- Place: International
- Year: 2017
- File: The spectrum of colonialism for queer asylum seekers
- URL: http://refugeehistory.org/blog/2017/10/9/the-spectre-of-colonialism-for-queer-asylum-seekers?fbclid=IwAR3cTx36Arx3kZOqeYVztHSqLK3mkTFwagSEAj17QbI-R0300Kak6dGGvZY
Calogero Giametta, ‘The spectre of colonialism for queer asylum seekers’, Refugee History, 9 October 2017
Abstract
Public and political advocacy for the ‘sexual refugee’ in western democracies has increased significantly in recent years despite the low numbers of asylum cases made (or granted) on grounds of sexual or gender identity. Here Calogero Giametta explores this recent history and warns against false dichotomies that pitch a liberal, sexually progressive global north against a regressive, homophobic south.