Mariza Avgeri

The Open University · Open University Law School

Based on the UNHCR – the UN Refugee Agency Guidelines and written by Mariza Avgeri, a lecturer, lawyer and advocate from Greece. The report compares the asylum systems of the European Union and the United States. Within the document, there is an analysis of the definition of refugees, membership in a particular social group, discrimination vs. per...

In this article, I focus on gender identity and gender expression as grounds for international protection. After clarifying issues of terminology and theoretical framework, namely Transgender Studies, I criticize the current framework for determining membership in a Particular Social Group (PSG) for the purposes of the Refugee Convention, drawing o...

In this article, I reflect on two interviews of transgender/gender nonconforming asylum claimants in the broader West. In the Trans*it documentary that my partners and I created, a non-binary person and a transgender woman, Ilios and Christina, interview each other on the difficulties of being a transgender/gender nonconforming asylum applicant in...