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11-03-2025, University of Sussex and online

GenSeM Migration Dialogue: Unpacking SOGIESC asylum in an age of hostility - a roundtable

Unpacking SOGIESC asylum in an age of hostility - a roundtable

Unpacking SOGIESC asylum in an age of hostility - a roundtable

A GenSeM Migration Dialogue (hybrid) in collaboration with the Sussex Centre for Migration Research (SCMR), University of Sussex.

March 11th, 2025

1-3pm (GMT)

University of Sussex, Arts C333

Online, Register: https://scmr_gensem3.eventbrite.co.uk

Speakers:

Catherine Jacquiss (One Pump Chambers/Manchester MU) "Lawyerly navigation of hostility in LGBTQIA+ claims – resistance, conformity and mitigation of risk";

Allan Briddock (One Pump Chambers) "The return to concealment in LGBTQIA+ refugee claims";

Nuno Ferreira (SCMR) "Queer Iranians seeking protection in Turkey, the UK and Canada";

Sarah Scuzzarello (SCMR) discussant. 

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