As Sarah van Walsum’s work shows, family norms have played an essential role in demarcating Europeans and non-Europeans since colonial times up until today. This is why gender and sexuality are crucial for understanding European asylum and migration law. In the past I have focused on gender and refugee law (Gender and Refugee Status, 1999), while the Fleeing Homophobia project, initiated in 2010 by Sabine Jansen of COC Nederland, rekindled my interest in LGBTI asylum issues (Fleeing Homophobia, with Sabine Jansen, 2011; Fleeing Homophobia (edited volume) 2013). I have analysed the inter-relation of gender and sexuality in Gender, Sexuality, Asylum and European Human Rights (2018).
Academic publications:
- Asylum decision‑making, gender and sexuality (2022)
- Gender, sexuality, asylum and European human rights (2018)
- Uit de kast, maar ook uit de brand? Lesbische, homoseksuele, biseksuele en transgender asielzoekers in Nederland (2016)
- European Sexual Nationalism: Refugee Law After the Gender & Sexuality Critiques (2015)
- Sexual identity, normativity and asylum (2013)
- De draaideurkast. Homoseksuele en transgender asielzoekers, discretie en strafbaarstelling (2012, met Sabine Jansen)
- Say it loud – en vlug een beetje. Homoseksuele en transgender asielzoekers, laat uit de kast komen en geloofwaardigheid (2012, met Sabine Jansen)
- Two remarks on queer law and queer politics (2012)
- Stereotyping and Acceleration. Gender, Procedureal Acceleration and Marginalized Judicial Review in the Dutch Asylum System (2005)
- Gender and Refugee Status (1999/2000)
- Notes on Fassbinder’s ‘Angst essen Seele auf’ (1998)
- Querelle Asks for Asylum (1998)
- Sheherazade en haar zusters. Sexueel geweld en vluchtelingenrecht (1994)
- Women and refugee status (1994)