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Gender Identity, Refugeehood, and Belonging: Transgender Asylum-Seekers and International Refugee Status Determination (RSD)
This research deals with transgender asylum-seekers and refugee status determination (RSD). It considers the excessively complex legal developments and discourse surrounding gender-related asylum applications and challenges the strict interpretation of the 1951 Convention Relating to the Status of R...
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| author | Deakin, Christina Mihoko |
| author2 | Khan, Fatima |
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| description | This research deals with transgender asylum-seekers and refugee status determination (RSD). It considers the excessively complex legal developments and discourse surrounding gender-related asylum applications and challenges the strict interpretation of the 1951 Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees and limited understandings of sex, gender, and sexual orientation by decision makers. This research adopts a queer critical analysis of international refugee law and provides a nuanced understanding of transgender identities to explain the shortcomings and misunderstandings that arise from gender-related asylum cases. This article provides recommendations for the advancements of appropriate legal approaches to gender-related asylum claims that will improve the protection of transgender asylum-seekers during the RSD process, provide a foundation for conceptual change to the asylum system, and promote the rule of law and human rights. |
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| spelling | oai:open.uct.ac.za:11427/37132 Gender Identity, Refugeehood, and Belonging: Transgender Asylum-Seekers and International Refugee Status Determination (RSD) Deakin, Christina Mihoko Khan, Fatima Human Rights Law This research deals with transgender asylum-seekers and refugee status determination (RSD). It considers the excessively complex legal developments and discourse surrounding gender-related asylum applications and challenges the strict interpretation of the 1951 Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees and limited understandings of sex, gender, and sexual orientation by decision makers. This research adopts a queer critical analysis of international refugee law and provides a nuanced understanding of transgender identities to explain the shortcomings and misunderstandings that arise from gender-related asylum cases. This article provides recommendations for the advancements of appropriate legal approaches to gender-related asylum claims that will improve the protection of transgender asylum-seekers during the RSD process, provide a foundation for conceptual change to the asylum system, and promote the rule of law and human rights. 2023-03-02T09:25:39Z 2023-03-02T09:25:39Z 2022 2023-02-20T12:32:59Z Master Thesis Masters LLM http://hdl.handle.net/11427/37132 eng application/pdf Department of Public Law Faculty of Law |
| spellingShingle | Human Rights Law Deakin, Christina Mihoko Gender Identity, Refugeehood, and Belonging: Transgender Asylum-Seekers and International Refugee Status Determination (RSD) |
| thesis_degree_str | Master's |
| title | Gender Identity, Refugeehood, and Belonging: Transgender Asylum-Seekers and International Refugee Status Determination (RSD) |
| title_full | Gender Identity, Refugeehood, and Belonging: Transgender Asylum-Seekers and International Refugee Status Determination (RSD) |
| title_fullStr | Gender Identity, Refugeehood, and Belonging: Transgender Asylum-Seekers and International Refugee Status Determination (RSD) |
| title_full_unstemmed | Gender Identity, Refugeehood, and Belonging: Transgender Asylum-Seekers and International Refugee Status Determination (RSD) |
| title_short | Gender Identity, Refugeehood, and Belonging: Transgender Asylum-Seekers and International Refugee Status Determination (RSD) |
| title_sort | gender identity refugeehood and belonging transgender asylum seekers and international refugee status determination rsd |
| topic | Human Rights Law |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/11427/37132 |
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