Kudo, ‘The Politics of Asylum and Sexual Minorities’, 2023

Haruko Kudo, ‘The Politics of Asylum and Sexual Minorities: Neo-refoulement under the Trump administration in the United States and those seeking asylum at the border’, 2023 Volume 74 Issue 3 p. 435-450

Abstract [automatic translation via Google]

In recent years, sexual minority refugees have been internationally recognized as vulnerable beings in need of protection. However, this paper shows that sexual minority refugees are not monolithic, but are divided by multiple variables and are treated differently. First, it shows that sexual minority asylum seekers have been able to apply for asylum to a certain extent. However, the Immigration Protection Protocol (MPP) introduced under the Trump administration introduced a new screening at the Mexican border, where sexual minorities are “being Second, by analyzing Title 42 of COVID-19 countermeasures and remobilizing the “public health threats” that have historically been used to exclude sexual minorities from entering the country, as security threats, It can be said that the immigration administration has limited and at the same time severely restricted access to asylum for sexual minorities seeking asylum, sometimes as exemptions from immigration control and sometimes as a security threat.

Keywords: sexual minorities, asylum seekers, neo-refoulement