Articles on Transgender Immigrants

Articles on Transgender Immigrants

Articles on transgender immigrants

Valeria Fernández, Transgender Asylum Seekers Face Deportation ‘Revolving Door,’ New Am. Media (Dec. 14, 2013),

Christina Fialho, Who Is Overseeing Immigration Detention?, Huffington Post (July 22, 2013),

Krypcia, Why the Trans Community Needs Immigration Reform, Wash. Blade (Oct. 4, 2013),

Karen Ocamb, Report: Trans Immigrants Must be Included in Immigration Reform, FrontiersLA.com (Oct. 4, 2013),

Antonieta Cádiz, Sex Abuse in Immigrant Detention at Center of Political Storm, New Am. Media (Dec. 8, 2011),

Andrew Harmon, Eight Months in Solitary: Is a Government Turf War Over Immigration Detention Putting transgender Lives at Risk? Advocate (May 7, 2012),

Tracy Garza, Hearing on LGBT Immigrant Detainees, Transgender Law Center,

Transgender Law Center Joins Appeal Supporting PTSD in Asylum Cases, Transgender Law Center,

Transgender Immigrant Detainees Face Isolation in Detention, KALW Local Public Radio (June 21, 2012),

Amy Lieberman, Mexican Transgender Women Deported to Life of Peril, WeNews (Aug. 26, 2013),

Amy Lieberman, Complaints by Transgender Detainees Quantify Abuse, WeNews (Sept. 3, 2013),

Amy Lieberman, GBT Housing 'Pod' Offers National Detention Model, WeNews (Sept. 7, 2013),

Amy Lieberman, Detention Centers Prep for Safer Transgender Housing, WeNews (Oct. 1, 2013),

Cristina Loboguerrero, Transgender Immigrants Detail Detention Abuse, Voices of NY (Aug. 29, 2013),

Cindy Carcamo, Hormone Therapy for Transgender Immigration Detainees? Orange County Reg. (Aug. 21, 2013),

Cindy Carcamo, Gay, Transgender Immigrant Detainees Claim Abuse in O.C. Jails. Orange County Reg. (Apr. 14, 2011),

Nat’l Ctr. for Transgender Equal., Our Moment for Reform: Immigration and Transgender People (2013), available at

Leslie Feinberg, Death of Trans Immigrant in Detention Forges United Protests, Workers World (Sept. 8, 2007),

Christina Fialho, A Model Immigration Detention Facility for LGBTI?, Forced Migration Rev. (Apr. 2013), available at

Esmeralda: A Transgender Asylum Seeker Speaks Out Against Immigration Detention. Restore Fairness (Nov. 11, 2009),

Reassessing Solitary Confinement: The Human Rights, Fiscal and Public Safety Consequences: Hearing Before the S. Jud. Subcomm. on the Const., C.R., and Hum. Rts. (2012) (testimony of organizations supporting LGBT Equality), available at

Laurel Anderson, Punishing the Innocent: How the Classification of Male-to-Female Transgender Individuals in Immigration Detention Constitutes Illegal Punishment Under the Fifth Amendment, 25 Berkley J. Gender, L. & Just. 1 (2010), available at http://genderlawjustice.berkeley.edu/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Anderson_Macro3.pdf.

New Documentary Highlights Transgender ICE Detainees, Detention Watch Network (July 10, 2012),

Yasmin Nair, NIJC Files Mass Civil Rights Complaint on Behalf of LGBT Immigrant Detainees, Windy City Times (Apr. 13, 2011),

Kelsey Papst, Protecting the Voiceless: Ensuring ICE’s Compliance with Standards that Protect Immigration Detainees, 40 McGeorge L. Rev. 261 (2009), available at http://www.mcgeorge.edu/Documents/Publications/13_Papst_Master1MLR40.pdf.

Veronica Bayetti Flores, Gender, Health and Immigration Detention, La Plaza (Oct. 8, 2010),

Debanuj DasGupta, Queering Immigration: Perspectives on Cross-Movement Organizing, S&F Online (2012), http://sfonline.barnard.edu/a-new-queer-agenda/queering-immigration-perspectives-on-cross-movement-organizing/0/.

Karen Vance, Love the Prisoner, Western Friend (Oct. 2013),

Pooja Gehi, Gendered (In)Security: Migration and Criminalization in the Security State, 35 Harv. J. L & Gender 357 (2012), available at

U.S. Gov’t Accountability Office, GAO-14-38, Immigration Detention: Additional Actions Could Strengthen DHS Efforts to Address Sexual Abuse (Nov. 2013), available at http://www.gao.gov/assets/660/659145.pdf.

Jayna Omaye, Report Raises Concerns About Solitary Detention for Gay, Transgender Immigrants, Sacramento Bee (Nov. 27, 2013),

Sharita Gruberg, Dignity Denied: LGBT Immigrants in U.S. Immigration Detention (Nov. 2013), available at

Sharita Gruberg, LGBT Immigrants Head to Congress to Share Stories of Detention and Abuse and Lobby for Reform, Think Progress (Oct. 31, 2013),

Ramy Srour, LGBT Immigrants Face Rampant Assault in U.S. Jails, Inter Press Service News Agency (Nov. 27, 2013),

Will O'Bryan, CAP Releases LGBT Detainee Report: Immigration Experts Share Insights on Particular Challenges for Undocumented LGBT Immigrants, Metro Weekly (Nov. 26, 2013),

Olga Tomchin, Bodies and Bureaucracy: Legal Sex Classification and Marriage-Based Immigration for Trans* People, 101 Calif. L. Rev. 813 (2013), available at http://scholarship.law.berkeley.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=4206&context=californialawreview.

Karla M. Padrón & Bamby Salcedo, TransVisible: Transgender Latina Immigrants in U.S. Society (2013), available at

EXPOSED: The devastating experiences that many transgender immigrants face…, Transgender Law Center,

Parker Marie Molloy, Do New Immigration Detention Guidelines Fail Trans Detainees?, Advocate (Mar. 14, 2014),

Weak DHS Sexual Abuse Rules Underscore Need to End Detention of Transgender Immigrants, Nat’l Center Transgender Equality,

Erika L. Sánchez, Left Out of the Narrative: LGBTQ Undocumented Detainees, truthout (Feb. 16, 2014),

Helping LGBT Detainees Caught in the U.S. Immigration System, U. Cal. Hastings C. Law (Mar. 20, 2014), http://www.uchastings.edu/news/articles/2014/03/adams-lgbt-advocate.php.

60+ LGBT Orgs Tell Obama to Stop Deportations, Endorse #Not1More Campaign, Transgender Law Center,

Sharita Gruberg, How the Prison Rape Elimination Act Helps LGBT Immigrants in Detention, Center Am. Progress (Apr. 2, 2014),

Janet Arelis Quezada, Video: Trans woman endures detention, becomes advocate, glaad (Apr. 1, 2014),

Sharita Gruberg, Congress' Costly Detention Quota: A Little-Known Congressional Quota is Placing LGBT Immigrants in Grave Danger, Center Am. Progress (May 9, 2014),

Nicole Akoukou Thompson, Immigration Detention Quota Puts LGBT Immigrants, Asylum Seekers at Risk for Abuse, Latin Post (June 3, 2014),

LGBT Orgs Call on Obama to Stop Deportations and Detention, Transgender Law Center (June 3, 2014),

Sharita Gruberg, LGBT Undocumented Immigrants Face an Increased Risk of Hate Violence, Center Am. Progress (June 10, 2014),

Jennifer Pike, Continuing the Fight for Immigration Reform, Hum. Rts. Campaign (June 12, 2014),

Olga Tomchin & Jenny Zhao, Sleep-Deprived + Hungry + Degraded=Fair Hearing?, Transgender Law Center,

Emma Margolin, Immigration reform advocates protest at Obama’s LGBT victory lap, MSNBC (June 17, 2014),

Lauren Fox, Obama’s LGBT Order Leaves Immigrant Groups Wanting More, U.S. News (June 17, 2014),

Nat’l Coal. of Anti-Violence Programs, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, and HIV-Affected Hate Violence in 2013 (2014), available at

Alison Cerezo et al., Trans Migrations: Exploring Life at the Intersection of Transgender Identity and Immigration, 1 Psychol. Sexual Orientation and Gender Diversity 170 (2014), available at

David Schwartz, Activists say transgender woman raped at Arizona immigration center, Reuters (July 31, 2014),

LGBTQ Immigration Activists Win Support on Equality, Equal Voice (July 31, 2014),

Matthew Hendley, Activists Say Response to Transgender Woman’s Rape in Eloy Detention Center is Unacceptable, Phx. New Times (Aug. 1, 2014),

Ashley Chhibber, US: Activists call for release of trans woman following alleged rape in detention centre, PinkNews (Aug. 1, 2014),

Sunnivie Brydum, Congressional Equality Caucus for LGBT-Specific Immigration Reform, Advocate (Aug. 1, 2014),

Parker Marie Molloy, Activists Call for Release of Trans Immigration Detainee Raped in Custody, Advocate (Aug. 1, 2014),

Maddie, Calls for ICE to #FreeMarichuy After Failing to Respond to Report of Sexual Assault, Autostraddle (Aug. 14, 2014),

Jorge Rivas, LGBT activists protest abuses suffered by transgender detainee, Fusion (Aug. 8, 2014),

Pressure from Orgs to Free Transgender Woman in ICE Detention Builds, Read the Latest Letter, Transgender Law Center,

Sarah Shroud, Newly Released Recordings Capture Abuse in Immigration Detention, Huffington Post (Aug. 12, 2014),

Suzanna Bobadilla, The Feministing Five: #FreeMarichuy’s Olga Tomchin, Feministing (Aug. 16, 2014),

Ana Ma & Matthew McClellan, Op-Ed: One Thing President Obama Can Do Now to Help LGBT Undocumented People, Advocate (Sept. 5, 2014),

Daniel Borgen, #FreeMarichuy: Marichuy Lael Gamino and the Plight of Trans Women in Prisons, PQ Monthly (Aug. 18, 2014),

Jake Folsom, LGBT Immigrants Hold Reform Rally in Front of White House, Towelroad (Sept. 10, 2014),

Nat’l LGBTQ leaders urge Pres. Obama, Congress to act on immigration, Windy City Media Group (Sept. 10, 2014),

Emma Margolin, LGBT immigrants protest against ‘death sentence’ deportations, MSNBC (Sept. 9, 2014),

Tania Unzueta Carrasco & B. Loewe, Destructive Delay: The State of Immigration Enforcement and the Human Cost of Postponing Reforms (2014), available at

Raúl Alcaraz Ochoa, Why You Should Help Me Get LGBT People Out of Detention, Advocate (Oct. 14, 2014),

LGBTQ Organizations Denounce White House’s Broken Promises on Immigration, Transgender Law Center,

John Riley, Immigration reform protest sparks action by LGBT Equality Caucus, Metro Weekly (Aug. 1, 2014),

Tony Merevick, Activists Stage Capitol Hill Sit-In Demanding LGBT Inclusion in Immigration Reform, BuzzFeed (July 30, 2014),

Detention Watch Network, #LGBTQ Rights & the Immigration Detention Bed Quota: #EndtheQuota (2014),

Victoria & Yordy on LGBTQ Immigrants in Detention, SoundCloud,

Steve Krafft, Transgendered inmate claims she was raped inside ICE center, FOX 10 News (Aug. 11, 2014),

Zack Ford, Transgender Woman Says Immigration Detention Officials Told Her To Pretend Her Rape Was Consensual, ThinkProgress (Aug. 5, 2014),

Ross Murray, Tiq Milan talks #FreeMarichuy on MSNBC, glaad (Aug. 7, 2014),

Deni Heffernan, Petition launched to #FreeMarichuy, a trans immigration detainee raped in custody, glaad (Aug. 5, 2014),

Julio Cisneros, Transgénero asegura haber sido violada en carcel de ICE, Facebook (Aug. 9, 2014),

ICE Retaliates Against Marichuy, Places Her in Solitary Confinement #freemarichuy, Transgender Law Center,

Action alert: Petition demands release of transgender woman raped in Arizona immigration jail, Wis. Gazette (Aug. 5, 2014),

Parker Marie Molloy, Report: Transgender Detainee Was Put in Solitary After Assault, Advocate (Aug. 11, 2014),

Karen Ocamb, Trans Woman Says ICE Retaliated After She Exposed Alleged Rape in Detention, FrontiersLA (Aug. 13, 2014),