Politzer and Hylton, ‘Caught Between Borders’, 2019
- Category: Other
- Source: Academic
- Subject: Sexual Orientation/Sexuality, Gender Identity, Refugee/Asylum, LGBT+
- Place: International, Africa
- Year: 2019
- File: Caught between borders
- URL: https://longreads.com/2019/06/11/caught-between-borders/
Malia Politzer and Annie Hylton, ‘Caught Between Borders: Closed borders and closed minds are trapping African LGBTI asylum seekers in hostile countries’, Longreads, June 2019
Abstract
The first time his father tried to kill him, Ismail* was 15 years old. By the time he turned 19, he had escaped four attempts on his life: Once, he was outside an asylum center in South Africa, where he’d hoped to find safety; other times he was in Somalia, the country from which he fled. His father was intent on killing him to protect the family’s “honor.” No matter where he went, it seemed, his father had enlisted Somali immigrants to mete out his execution. Ismail’s crime? He is gay.