Queerly Faithful: Queer People's Experience of Religion in Asylum Seeking

The ebook edition of this title is Open Access and freely available to read online. An assumption present in refugee status determinations is that there is an incompatibility of religious faith and queer subjectivity.Queerly Faithful considers religious experiences throughout the lives of queer people who seek asylum to show the complexity of queer people’s lives in country of origin, the legal asylum process and rebuilding lives in host countries.How do queer people experience religion before and after arrival into the UK to claim asylum?Providing new empirical data in an under researched area, Fletcher examines the nexus of queer subjectivity, religion and asylum seeking, highlighting life history interviews with queer people seeking asylum and with those who respond to them, either in a faith-based context, legal provision, or NGO responses.By exploring three key areas country-of-origin (CoO) experience, the intersection of the legal and social in the UK asylum context, and religiou