Immigration and Asylum for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Individuals

Redcay, Alex; Luquet, Wade; Huggin, McKenzie E.

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“…The earliest ill treatment participants reported experiencing was often associated with family and community rejection or violence. Furthermore, due to a potential lack of affirming family relationships, LGBTQ+ asylum seekers may be isolated from typical networks of support once in the United States (Bird et al., 2022; Shidlo & Ahola, 2013; Redcay et al., 2019), which may contribute to housing instability or disrupt their paths to citizenship within the family‐centric structure of U.S. immigration policy (Collier & Daniel, 2019).…”

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Persecution and migration experiences of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer/questioning, and other sexual and gender minority asylum seekers

Lasowski,

Moscicki,

Liu

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Journal of Traumatic Stress

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Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer/questioning, and other sexual and gender minority (LGBTQ+) asylum seekers are exposed to high rates of persecution. This study aimed to identify the forms of ill treatment and the impact of these experiences on the mental health of 66 self-identified LGBTQ+ asylum seekers from 24 nations through the analysis of human rights program intakes, sworn declarations, and pro bono forensic psychological evaluation affidavits. The results indicate that participants experienced physical assault (92.4%), harassment and intimidation (84.8%), and sexual assault (56.1%). Psychological sequelae included symptoms of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD; 83.3%), depression (72.7%), and anxiety (57.6%). LGBTQ+ asylum seekers faced additional hazards upon arrival in the United States. Still, these asylum seekers experienced resilience as they leveraged internal and external support. The results can serve to inform clinical professionals about the range and impact of exposures to harm experienced by LGBTQ+ asylum seekers as well as possible strategies for support and advocacy for this diverse community.

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Persecution and migration experiences of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer/questioning, and other sexual and gender minority asylum seekers

Lasowski,

Moscicki,

Liu

et al. 2023

Journal of Traumatic Stress

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“…Although transgender individuals may choose to migrate for safety and security reasons, such individuals may not find solace in the United States. Immigrants and asylum seekers are routinely processed into detention centers where they may wait for months or even years to have their case heard by a judge (Collier & Daniel, 2019;Redclay et al, 2019). Although numerous studies have indicated the harms that immigrants face within detention centers, a handful of studies have suggested that transgender immigrants in detention centers-especially transgender women-are at increased risk of psychological, physical, sexual, and medical harm (Anderson, 2010;Resendiz, 2018).…”

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“…Though no official national data exists, a national survey of 27,715 transgender adults revealed that six percent of respondents were not born in the U.S. (James et al, 2016). Transgender individuals migrate to the United States for a variety of reasons; however, a disproportionate number of transgender individuals leave their countries of origin to escape transphobic institutions, policies, and violence (Cerezo et al, 2014; Cheney et al, 2017; Collier & Daniel, 2019; Redclay et al, 2019). Although transgender individuals may choose to migrate for safety and security reasons, such individuals may not find solace in the United States.…”

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Advocating for Transgender Immigrants in Detention Centers: Cisnormativity as a Tool for Racialized Social Control

Kurdyla

2022

American Behavioral Scientist

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Despite public concern over immigration enforcement, little attention has been given to transgender immigrants, who are disproportionately at risk for arrest and deportation. Organizations dedicated to protecting LGBT people’s rights and immigrant rights have been working to address this issue and shape policy decisions to better protect transgender immigrants in detention centers; however, research has not investigated how these organizations frame transgender immigrant detainees and their experience in detention to accomplish their goals. This current study uses a content analysis of public documents spanning 2009–2021 from the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and the Transgender Law Center (TLC) to investigate how two legal advocacy organizations frame the issue of transgender immigrants within detention centers. The ACLU rarely discusses transgender immigrants and thus upholds cisnormativity. When they do discuss transgender immigrants, their transgender identity is referenced as a singular issue in isolation from other facets of their identity. The TLC, on the other hand, frames immigration detention for transgender immigrants as part of a larger web of oppression. Through a comparison of the ACLU and TLC, this study underscores the role of cisnormativity as a tool for racialized social control. Findings highlight the importance of a critical, intersectional approach to immigration advocacy and scholarship that challenges the cisnormative assumptions guiding the current immigration system. Implications for future research and service provision are discussed.

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“…Scholars have also shown that Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, Intersex, Asexual, and Other nonheterosexual people (LGBTQIA+) asylees face a difficult and violent process in a documented process (Chávez 2013). Asylum officials use inaccurate, stereotypical, or degrading measures to determine and verify LGBTQIA+ individuals' sexual orientation, which has fostered longer jail time and sentences to death (Redcay, Luquet, and Huggin 2019).…”

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Looking in a mirror: Asylum in the United States as a reflection of white supremacy

Udani

Wedding²

2021

Social Science Quarterly

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We contend that the asylum process in the United States exhibits how confinement, surveillance, and deportation work together to extend the primary logics of white supremacy: genocide, anti-blackness, and orientalism. We envision abolition work that uplifts not only asylum seekers but all people with lived experiences of coerced mobility. Methods: Through the lenses of critical race, decolonial theory, and abolition, we conceptualize the asylum process beyond only one violent system that coerces the mobility of migrants. Results: We build a theory that extends scholarly conversations about asylum processes as a system of racial/colonial surveillance, control, and state-sanctioned violence and that informs abolitionist practices. Conclusion:In order to eradicate all forms of detention, we must build robust strategies that demolish the pillars of white supremacy and rebuild new politics that reject the notion of freedom as a reward to well-behaved people, resist coerced mobility, foster shared power arrangements in which people with lived experiences of oppression organize to help each other, and reorient a capitalist system that commoditizes and exploits people's oppression. Striving for anything less will lead to more violence.People who seek asylum in the United States confront a government that has publicly announced that more detention centers will open for families with children with unauthorized status, shackle electronic monitoring devices to their bodies while they wait for a judge to decide whether they can legally stay, and enforce a zero-tolerance policy that criminally prosecutes asylum seekers for unlawful entry. An increasingly popular call to action is to abolish U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). Yet considering how the immigration system impacts migrant communities is, as Davis (2003) and Alexander (2020) argue, one aspect of the process. Abolishing just U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) can lead to violence, raising a dangerous normative suggestion that some people should be detained while others should not.In this article, we consider asylum seekers as one subgroup of an increasingly growing population that law enforcement agencies have placed under some form of control for suspected criminal behavior (Lerman and Weaver 2014), despite not engaging in any illegal activity. Hernández (2017) has argued, "the jail, the prison, and the immigrant detainment camp are all architecture of a permanent society of racial 3142

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Immigration and Asylum for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Individuals

Cited by 11 publications

References 11 publications

Persecution and migration experiences of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer/questioning, and other sexual and gender minority asylum seekers

Persecution and migration experiences of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer/questioning, and other sexual and gender minority asylum seekers

Advocating for Transgender Immigrants in Detention Centers: Cisnormativity as a Tool for Racialized Social Control

Looking in a mirror: Asylum in the United States as a reflection of white supremacy

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