Heteronormative accommodations: legal asylum processes & asylum accommodation for LGBTQI+ people
How asylum accommodation provision in the UK puts LGBTQI+ people seeking asylum at risk of harm and can impact their ability to access a fair legal process.
Asylum accommodation requires daily negotiations in terms of meeting evidentiary expectations within the legal asylum process and personal safety and security within accommodation settings. In this lecture, it will be explored how certain social factors create additional barriers for LGBTQI+ people to prove they are in need of refugee protection.
Claire Fletcher is currently working a Southampton Solent University in the department of Social Sciences. Her research interests centre on UK asylum policy, with a particular focus on the experiences of LGBTQI+ people seeking asylum and asylum housing policy in the UK. She has also worked and volunteered in refugee rights organisations since 2014.
This online lecture forms part of the Dialogue in Migration and Refugee Studies Lecture and Seminar Series, funded by the Jean Monnet grant. The series will continue in January 2025.