Mengia Tschalaer is a professor of anthropology at John Jay College, CUNY. From 2018-2020 she led an EU funded project which examined the experiences of LGBTQI+ asylum seekers with Muslim background within Germany’s asylum system and is the author of “Muslim Women’s Quest for Justice: Gender, Law, and Activism in India” (Cambridge University Press, 2017) and of various articles on socio-legal resistance, gender, sexuality, migration/asylum, and Islam. Mengia Tschalaer is the co-founder of the Queer European Asylum Network and she has taught courses on law and society, transnational feminisms, and intersectionality at Columbia University and City University of New York.