Leeds Beckett University - City Campus,
Woodhouse Lane,
LS1 3HE
With the recent anti-immigration bill passed by the British parliament in July 2023, this session will open up and critically discuss the services LGBTIQ+ refugees and asylum seekers have received or have had access to in detention centres in the UK. Specifically, it will draw attention to:
The material provided emerged from an in-depth literature review published between 2017 to 2023 from the collaborative project on ‘Queer migration- Migrating Queer studies’ (with Luan Carpes Baros Cassal). The session connects with one of the project’s broader reflections and outputs on what accommodation means within detention and removal centers and how the latter affects mental health and service provision questions for the LGBTIQ+ community.
This session is part of the PsyCen seminar series, in association with the Culture, Diversity and Social Behaviour Research Programme at Leeds Beckett University. The Centre of Psychological Research (PsyCen), supports research projects dedicated to improving psychological wellbeing for different communities in conjunction with a range of external collaborators and funders.
The Centre’s work showcases diverse methodologies, from psychometric and experimental designs to qualitative and critical psychology approaches, to advance knowledge across different branches of psychological science, from social and community psychology to cognitive neuroscience and biological psychology.
