16 Aug 2023
Women’s Month may be drawing to a close, but our project's work continues. Skye Chirape's scholarship was featured this month in UCT News
Skye Chirape is s a forensic psychology scholar and PhD in psychology candidate at UCT, and is a member of the Unsettling knowledge Production.
Her work highlights how sexual and gender-diverse communities (LGBTQI+) and their identity are defined and controlled by the state through border controls while centring the process of healing and social justice.
Her PhD work was featured in an article titled "Women’s Month: UK creates ‘hostile environment’ for African sexual and gender-diverse asylum claimants". In this article she discusses how "There has been a global movement of people journeying to the northern hemisphere to seek refuge. And in particular, there’s also been a rise in sexual and gender-diverse folks crossing the borders for safety [to] other countries,” she said. “In the UK where our research communities are located, the government has continued to create hostile environments that make it very difficult for migrants to enter and remain there”.
For more on this topic, see the full article here: https://www.news.uct.ac.za/article/-2023-08-17-womens-month-uk-creates-hostile-environment-for-african-sexual-and-gender-diverse-asylum-claimants