Queering UK Refugee Law
Book • 2025
Alex Powell's 'Queering UK Refugee Law' applies queer theory and critical legal methods to examine how UK asylum bureaucracy evaluates sexuality and gender in protection claims.
Drawing on case law, policy analysis, and interviews with asylum seekers and practitioners, Powell reveals how credibility standards, the shame‑stigma model, dispersal policies, and political discourse shape outcomes.
The book situates these administrative practices within contemporary shifts in liberal human rights regimes and rising anti‑gender politics.
It highlights the harms caused by a culture of disbelief and offers insights for legal practice and policy reform.
Powell also explores the impacts on practitioners’ capacity and safety amid rapidly changing legislation and moral panics.
Drawing on case law, policy analysis, and interviews with asylum seekers and practitioners, Powell reveals how credibility standards, the shame‑stigma model, dispersal policies, and political discourse shape outcomes.
The book situates these administrative practices within contemporary shifts in liberal human rights regimes and rising anti‑gender politics.
It highlights the harms caused by a culture of disbelief and offers insights for legal practice and policy reform.
Powell also explores the impacts on practitioners’ capacity and safety amid rapidly changing legislation and moral panics.
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