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- The paper critiques the UNHCR's handling of protection for LGBTI refugees in Kenya, highlighting a lack of research on their experiences compared to those seeking asylum in Western countries.
- It emphasizes that the way UNHCR frames protection and the practical challenges in Kenya create an unsafe environment for these refugees.
- Additionally, the author argues for a reevaluation of what 'protection' means in the context of humanitarian aid, suggesting it needs to be more critically understood within global refugee governance dynamics.
Article Abstract
This paper problematises the framing and implementation of protection of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and intersex (LGBTI) refugees in Kenya by the United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR). Despite increased international attention being paid to them, the extant literature focuses on asylum-seeking at Western borders; there is a dearth of scholarship on LGBTI refugees' experiences in first countries of asylum in the Global South. Building on essential humanitarian governance literature, the paper suggests that how protection is framed by UNHCR, and practical restrictions on the implementation of protection in Kenya, leave LGBTI refugees unsafe. Yet, their own attempts to secure protection, often drawing on the same human rights discourse that UNHCR utilises in its guidance, renders them even less 'protectable' by UNHCR and Kenyan activists. This paper argues for a more critical and contextualised approach to 'protection' as a form of humanitarian assistance, given its place within the broader dynamics of global refugee governance.
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