A Feminist Perspective on Europe

Queer asylum seekers are more often affected by violenc than the average, The violence emanates from other homophobic refugees, from family members, employees in the accomodation or right-wing extremist groups. The EU admission guideline 2013/33 states, taht the EU member states are obliged to take appropriate measures to identify and support this particularly vulnerable group of people. But neither in the EU, nor in Germany, is this directive sufficiently implemented.

The procedures to determine whether someone is homosexual, trans or inter, for example at BamF, are, as current incidents show, in the majority degrading and insulting for those affected. Even before the pandemic, collective accommodation for queer refugees sometimes resembled a kind of prison. The situation worsened with Covid.

In 2017, the GWI began to build a network together with the student of cultural studies and later employee of the Federal Foundation Magnus Hirschfeld Mohammad Dalla, which has set itself the goal of making the special situation of queer asylum seekers more visible to the wider public. The network also aims to create a dialogue between academics and political decision-makers, with the intention of significantly improving the living conditions of queer refugees. In 2019, the Queer European Asylum Network was founded under the leadership of the two scientists Mengia Tschäeler and Nina Held.