(DOWNLOAD) "Identity, Refugeeness, Belonging: Experiences of Sexual Minority Refugees in Canada (Essay)" by Canadian Review of Sociology * Book PDF Kindle ePub Free
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- Title: Identity, Refugeeness, Belonging: Experiences of Sexual Minority Refugees in Canada (Essay)
- Author : Canadian Review of Sociology
- Release Date : January 01, 2011
- Genre: Social Science,Books,Nonfiction,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 284 KB
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IN 1991, CANADA BECAME ONE OF the first Western nations to grant refugee (1) status on the basis of sexual orientation (LaViolette 2009a; Rehaag 2008). Subsequently, the landmark Supreme Court of Canada ruling Canada (A.G.) v. Ward in 1993, while not specifically about a sexual minority refugee claim, explicitly defined the parameters of the refugee convention concept of "particular social group" to include sexual orientation within Canadian refugee law (2) (LaViolette 1997). In 1995, the Canadian refugee tribunal become one of the first "to have adjudicator training on these issues and to produce in-house human rights information on the situations of sexual minorities in different countries" (LaViolette 2009a:438). Since this time, the Canadian Refugee Protection Division (RPD) has adjudicated thousands of refugee claims based on Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity (SOGI) and has one of the highest acceptance rates of such claims (Millbank 2009). While exact numbers are not available, a 2002 article in The Globe and Mail reported that close to 2,500 people from 75 different countries made an SOGI-based claim between 1999 and 2002 (LaViolette 2009a). In addition, 1,351 SOGI-based refugee claims were adjudicated in 2004 (Rehaag 2008).