LGBTI Survey on Asylees and Refugees

From ORAM:

Organization for Refuge, Asylum & Migration, is a San Francisco-based advocacy agency focusing on refugees fleeing sexual and gender-based violence.  ORAM is conducting a ground-breaking survey on the integration of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) refugees and asylees in the greater Bay Area.  ORAM is searching for relatively recent asylum grantees or recently-arrived refugees who’d be willing to spend several hours recounting their experiences to a researcher.  The published results will benefit all LGBTI refugees and asylum for years to come. 

We are asking AILA NorCal attorneys to contact known LGBTI clients and ask whether they might be willing to participate in this project.  Clients should be assured that all results will be kept anonymous and highly confidential.

This project is being overseen by ORAM Executive Director and long-time AILA attorney Neil Grungras. A UNHCR partner NGO on LGBTI issues, ORAM has been featured prominently in the UN Refugee Agency’s outreach materials. See http://www.unhcr.org/cgi-bin/texis/vtx/search?page=search&docid=4e0adced9&query=ORAM (story provided below).

If you are able to assist, or if you would like more information, please write Neil at grungrasn@oraminternational.org.

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