Submission to the UK parliament’s justice and home affairs committee’s ‘family migration’ inquiry

In this submission, we identify key elements of the SOGICA project findings and recommendations that we urge the UK government to adopt in its national asylum and migration policy. While these recommendations do not address the full range of concerns the SOGICA project has identified, they do pick up some of the key ones that concern how the UK asylum system affects the families of SOGI asylum claimants and refugees. Our answers focus on questions 7-9 of the inquiry, and reflect the fact that asylum claimants and refugees are entitled to enjoy the right to respect for family life without any discrimination based on SOGI or on any intersection between these or other characteristics. More generally, we recommend a rights-based approach to ensure SOGI minority asylum claimants are treated equitably.