Vasquez, ‘Advocates Call for the Release of a Gay Nigerian Asylum Seeker’, 2018
- Category: Reports
- Source: Other
- Subject: Sexual Orientation/Sexuality, Gender Identity, Refugee/Asylum, Human Rights
- Place: Africa, Americas
- Year: 2018
- URL: https://rewire.news/article/2018/06/01/advocates-call-release-gay-nigerian-asylum-seeker/
Tina Vasquez, ‘Advocates Call for the Release of a Gay Nigerian Asylum Seeker’, Rewire News, 2018
Abstract
Black immigrants are rarely the face of news reports about asylum seekers; their realities are often ignored by mainstream immigrant rights organizations that tend to frame immigration as a Latinx issue. Udoka Nweke, a gay Nigerian immigrant, is among those whose stories have been overlooked. But thanks to a growing movement—coming to a head today, the first day of LGBTQ Pride Month, with a press conference on his case—his story is finally garnering public attention.