eprintid: 10149256 rev_number: 7 eprint_status: archive userid: 699 dir: disk0/10/14/92/56 datestamp: 2022-05-27 13:53:00 lastmod: 2022-05-27 13:53:00 status_changed: 2022-05-27 13:53:00 type: article metadata_visibility: show sword_depositor: 699 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 document_url: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10149256/1/LGBTQ%20asylum%20and%20transformative%20accommodations%20between%20religion%20faith%20and%20sexuality%20in%20the%20UK.pdf