Rainbow Asylum

Seeking Safety for Queer Asylees in America

Author: Rainbow Asylum

Rainbow Asylum: Seeking Safety for Queer Asylees in America is a podcast dedicated to being a resource for anyone interested in learning more about the challenges faced by LGBTQ asylum seekers in America. Within our three episodes, we discuss and answer the following questions: What is asylum? How is asylum impacting LGBTQ people? Why do LGBTQ people seek asylum? What is the asylum process like for LGBTQ asylees? What are some domestic policies impacting LGBTQ asylees? What is being done to help LGBTQ asylees?Attention: Please take this pre-test survey before listening to the podcast content: https://forms.gle/Qxdd94fqCpGqs3Kr5After listening to the entire podcast, please take this post-test survey: https://forms.gle/hHVp7zQtmFGgFbid7This podcast is hosted by the social work students Joy Jennings, Grace Kennedy, Chelsea Middlemiss, and Trisha Washburn as an advocacy project through Michigan State University. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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What Is Being Done to Help LGBTQ+ Asylum Seekers?
Episode 3
Tuesday, 4 April, 2023

Please complete this post-test survey after listening to the entire podcast: https://forms.gle/hHVp7zQtmFGgFbid7Description: This final episode of the podcast overviews the current work being done to help and protect LGBTQ+ asylum seekers along with discussion about best practices for helping professionals and what you can do to help as a listener.Learning Resources: Edafe OkporoRefuge AmericaThe LGBT Asylum ProjectHIAS, the global Jewish nonprofit that protects refugees Center for Gender and Refugee Studies National Center for Immigrant Justice Center #WelcomewithDignityLGBT Freedom and Asylum Network Immigration Equality Asylum Seeker Advocacy Project Welcome Corps "See No Stranger: A Memoir and Manifesto of Revolutionary Love" by Valerie KaurThe Revolutionary Love Project by Valerie KaurConditions in Migrant Detention CentersServing LGBTQ Immigrants and Building Welcoming CommunitiesUS LGBT Asylum Seekers In Danger At The Border Report documents abuse of LGBTQ asylum seekers in ICE custodyMorgan, D. A. (2006). Not gay enough for the government: Racial and sexual stereotypes in sexual orientation asylum cases. Law & Sexuality: A Review of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Legal Issues, 15, 135–161.Cerezo, A., Morales, A., Quintero, D., & Rothman, S. (2014). Trans migrations: Exploring life at the intersection of transgender identity and immigration. Psychology of Sexual Orientation and Gender Diversity. 1(2), 170-180. https://www.proquest.com/docview/1541644205/ FE6E134DD9B94CABPQ/2. 10.1037/sgd0000031 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.