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datestamp: 2022-05-27 13:53:00
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creators_name: Greatrick, Aydan
title: LGBTQ plus asylum and transformative accommodations between religion, faith and sexuality in the UK
ispublished: inpress
divisions: C01
divisions: J42
divisions: B03
divisions: UCL
keywords: LGBTQ+ rights; queer asylum; queer migration; religion; faith; United Kingdom
note: © 2022 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. 
This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
abstract: The right to asylum on grounds of sexuality and/or gender-based persecution is frequently seen as synonymous with the right to “exit” one’s oppressive religious community. This article aims to critique this assumption through a focus on LGBTQ+ asylum claimants, refugees and support providers everyday negotiations with and between faith, religion, sexuality and gender identity in the UK. Drawing on critical scholarship on religion, gender, sexuality, difference, and asylum, as well as empirical research with asylum claimants and secular and religious support organizations in the UK, this article shows how LGBTQ+ refugees and asylum claimants respond to experiences of marginalization through processes of “transformative accommodation” between faith traditions and liberal LGBTQ+ rights. Such accommodations highlight the instability of assumptions that view LGBTQ+ rights in conflict with faith and religious belief, in turn contesting the basis on which racialized, secular and gendered differences that pervade contexts of LGBTQ+ asylum are maintained.
date: 2022-05-12
date_type: published
publisher: ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
official_url: https://doi.org/10.1080/01419870.2022.2072175
oa_status: green
full_text_type: pub
language: eng
primo: open
primo_central: open_green
verified: verified_manual
elements_id: 1958052
doi: 10.1080/01419870.2022.2072175
lyricists_name: Greatrick, Aydan
lyricists_id: AGREA78
actors_name: Flynn, Bernadette
actors_id: BFFLY94
actors_role: owner
funding_acknowledgements: ES/P000592/1 [UK's Economic and Social Research Council]
full_text_status: public
publication: Ethnic and Racial Studies
pages: 21
issn: 0141-9870
citation:        Greatrick, Aydan;      (2022)    LGBTQ plus asylum and transformative accommodations between religion, faith and sexuality in the UK.                   Ethnic and Racial Studies        10.1080/01419870.2022.2072175 <https://doi.org/10.1080/01419870.2022.2072175>.    (In press).    Green open access   
 
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