RESEARCH THEMES

Rethinking Protection
Through Lived Experiences

Under the title “Transforming LGBTIQ+ asylum policies: A multi-country cross-sectoral approach to research, policy, and advocacy”, the project explores LGBTIQ+ asylum through a wide set of interconnected themes. Rather than reducing asylum to legal procedure alone, it looks at how protection is shaped by everyday life, structural inequality, institutional violence and collective survival. 

a.
Protection and law

How do legal systems decide whose stories are believed and whose claims for protection are refused?

b.
Housing and detention

How do accommodation and confinement shape safety during the asylum process?

c.
Health and wellbeing

How do displacement and asylum systems affect people’s bodies and emotions?

Faith, identity and everyday life

How do religion, belief and identity shape everyday survival for LGBTIQ+ people on the move?

Community and mutual aid

How do people create care and support when formal protection systems fail them?

Work, visibility, resistance and future-making

How do LGBTIQ+ people build liveable futures while navigating precarity?

Across all sites, the project investigates, among other themes: