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Welcome to the DFG Research Unit “Law – Gender – Collectivity”

Our interdisciplinary Research Unit has been active since January 2018. It brings together scholars of law, sociologists, European ethnologists and historians from the three major Berlin universities, the University of Potsdam and the European University Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder). Read more…

The Research Unit consists of six sub-projects and a coordinating project. In every sub-project, a team investigates a particular empirical research field. In our second funding phase (2021-2024), these are environmental law and climate litigation (A), transnational labor conflicts (B), urban & housing commons (C), consumer protection (D), processes of infrastructurization (E), and human rights, queer genders and sexualities since the 1970s (F).

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Petra Sußner (2019): What's going on in Austria?

What's going on in Austria? Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity as Subject of Asylum Procedures by Petra Sussner published in FluchtforschungsBlog

Generally, sexual orientation and gender identity are considered to have arrived in asylum law - those who are persecuted as (allegedly) LGBTIQ persons can invoke the refugee concept. As is so often the case, the focus of legal debate shifts to the area of investigation and the assessment of evidence. And here, things are still open, as the recent turmoil surrounding the Austrian Federal Office for Immigration and Asylum has shown. This blog post approaches the issue from three perspectives: (1) the Union law foundations in the field of sexual orientation, (2) their relevance for the field of gender identity, and (3) a look at Austrian practice and possible strategies for procedural management.

Blog post in German.