Description: 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 Okporo
• Refuge America
• The LGBT Asylum Project
• HIAS, the global Jewish nonprofit that protects refugees 
• Center for Gender and Refugee Studies
• National Center for Immigrant Justice Center
• #WelcomewithDignity
• LGBT Freedom and Asylum Network 
• Immigration Equality
• Asylum Seeker Advocacy Project 
• Welcome Corps 
• "See No Stranger: A Memoir and Manifesto of Revolutionary Love" by Valerie Kaur
• The Revolutionary Love Project by Valerie Kaur
• Conditions in Migrant Detention Centers
• Serving LGBTQ Immigrants and Building Welcoming Communities
• US LGBT Asylum Seekers In Danger At The Border
•  Report documents abuse of LGBTQ asylum seekers in ICE custody
• Morgan, 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

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Description: In episode 2, we discuss what the asylum process looks like for LGBTQ+ people with additional insight into the real-life complications of U.S. domestic policies. This episode also features a special guest interview with Andres Molina, the Development and Communications Coordinator with the LGBT Asylum Project. You can follow the LGBT Asylum Project’s work through their information below.

Learning Resources:

• LGBT Asylum Project Website
• LGBT Asylum Project Instagram: lgbtasylumproject
• LGBT Asylum Facebook
• Interested in volunteering for the LGBT Asylum Project? Email pr@lgbtasylumproject.org
• U.S. Policies and Practices Subjecting LGBTQ Asylum Seekers to Human Rights Violations
• Protecting and Assisting LGBT Refugees
• What about LGBT refugees in the United States?
• The United States Is Not Safe for LGBT Refugees: A Call to Abandon the Canada-United States Safe Third Country Agreement
• Center for the Study of Social Policy: LGBTQ+
• It's Time to Pass the Equality Act

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Trigger Warning: Please be aware of some heavy content discussed in this episode including violence against LGBTQ+ people. Listen with caution and take care of yourself. 

Description: In this episode, we will be defining concepts related to asylum, overviewing some asylum history, and exploring some of the reasons why LGBTQ+ people seek asylum. 

Learning Resources:

• Defining Refugee
• Defining Asylum
• Khayal's Story: What it's Like to be an LGBT Asylum Seeker
• Violence and Harassment against LGBT People and Activists in Russia
• Map of Countries that Criminalize LGBT People
• The Ecology of Anti-Gay Violence
• A Victim of the Anti-Gay Purge in Chechnya Speaks Out
• The Horror of Honor Killings
• Llewellyn, C. (2020). Captive while waiting to be free: Legal violence and LGBTQ asylum applicant experiences in the USA. Sexuality Research and Social Policy, 18(1), 202–212. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13178-020-00449-7
• Alessi, E., Kahn, S., Van Der Horn, R. (2017) A qualitative exploration of the premigration victimization experiences of sexual and gender minority refugees and asylees in the United States and Canada. The Journal of Sex Research, 54(7), 936-948, DOI: 10.1080/00224499.2016.1229738
• Ariel Shidlo, & Joanne Ahola. (2013). Mental health challenges of LGBT forced migrants. Forced Migration Review, 42, 9–11. 

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