Perego, ‘(Des)Haciendo Fronteras’, 2021
- Category: Literature
- Source: Academic
- Subject: Sexual Orientation/Sexuality, Gender Identity, Intersex, Refugee/Asylum, LGBT+
- Place: Europe, Other
- Year: 2021
- File: Perego-Deshaciendofronteras-2021
- URL: https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv17ppc7d.14
Aurora Perego, ‘(Des)Haciendo Fronteras: Latin American LGBTIQ* Asylum Seekers in Spain in the Process of Credibility Assessment’, in Richard C. M. Mole (ed.), Queer Migration and Asylum in Europe, UCL Press, 2021, pp. 132–61
Abstract
In recent years, the adjudication of international protection has received prominent attention in the so- called global North. Against this backdrop, in the last decade scholars and advocates have started to address the delicate situation of LGBTIQ* asylum seekers, that is, individuals who seek protection on the grounds of their gender identity or sexual orientation. Data gathered by international organisations shows that all over the world LGBTIQ* individuals are subjected to severe forms of violence and are forced to leave their countries in high numbers (UNHCR 2015).
Despite a lack of official statistics, ILGA-Europe (2016) indicates that asylum applications on the grounds of gender identity or sexual orientation have increased alarmingly since the 1990s. Furthermore, these claims seem to encounter specific problems in comparison to those made on other grounds, most notably the ‘growing trend of rejections based on non-credibility of the sexual orientation or gender identity itself, in many cases based on stereotypes’ (ILGA- Europe 2014, 4).