A Eulogy for Roxsana Hernández: Tracing the Relationship between Border Rhetoric and Queer Debility

Garza, Antonio Tomas De La

doi:10.14321/qed.6.3.0094

QED: A Journal in GLBTQ Worldmaking

2019

DOI: 10.14321/qed.6.3.0094

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A Eulogy for Roxsana Hernández: Tracing the Relationship between Border Rhetoric and Queer Debility

Antonio Tomas De La Garza¹

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Withholding the letter: Transgender asylum seekers, legal gender recognition, and the UNHCR mandate

Camminga

2024

Journal of Refugee Studies

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In the absence of legal gender recognition (LGR), transgender people carry documents that misrecognize them. The link between LGR’s absence and exposure to violence and exclusion—experiences that often force transgender people to flee—is clarified by scholarship. However, when a trans person seeks asylum, they are often provided with documents that, rather than unambiguously recognizing their bearer, repeat this misrecognition. This incongruence often exposes transgender asylum seekers to greater risk. Previously, I have argued that, at the moment in which they seek international protection, transgender asylum seekers experience a form of statelessness due to the absence of LGR. In this paper, I build on this argument, drawing on a range of empirical studies to suggest that conditions of statelessness already exist prior to fleeing. As a result, I argue that the UNHCR is under obligation to provide documents recognizing their holder, even if this runs counter to state legislation.

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Withholding the letter: Transgender asylum seekers, legal gender recognition, and the UNHCR mandate

Camminga

2024

Journal of Refugee Studies

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A Eulogy for Roxsana Hernández: Tracing the Relationship between Border Rhetoric and Queer Debility

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Withholding the letter: Transgender asylum seekers, legal gender recognition, and the UNHCR mandate

Withholding the letter: Transgender asylum seekers, legal gender recognition, and the UNHCR mandate

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