Strengthening Sexual Minority Refugee Research
Lead: Jennifer Hyndman, Centre for Refugee Studies, York University (jhyndman@yorku.ca)
The proposed work will extend the scope of the new ‘gender’ research cluster to include refugee issues also related to sexuality/sexual orientation. CRS in Toronto and Canada is well suited to be a world leader on/around these issues given its willingness to interpret the Refugee Convention with sexual minority status as a ‘social group’. Specifically, this would aim to
- deepen networks of scholarship at York on asylum and sexual minority status;
- create a resource repository at the Refugee Law Project in Uganda , a highly discriminatory state that produces many sexual minority claimants, with documents that address LGBT refugee scholarship and activism;
- disseminate research by York scholars on sexual minority status refugees in Uganda to highlight the often silenced stories of those persecuted and the scholarship/legal work being done; we would aim to support the Uganda scholars in ways that we may not yet know about.
Expected Outcomes:
- Evidence of development of a sexual minority network within the gender cluster
- A report on the status of the network and the partnership with the Refugee Law Project
- A proposal for the further development and sustainability of the network
- Integration of the RLP catalogue/materials into the RRN institutional repository
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