Sophia Simelitidou

I critically examine the European Asylum and Immigration legal regime with a focus on struggles around privacy and family life. This right is routinely violated during asylum determination, the very process that is designed to afford protection to refugees. As part of this research, I will conduct analysis with ethnographic methods and primarily engage with LGBTQIA+ refugees in Greece, who are often in the precarious position of having to share private information for their claims to be processed. My goals include: assessing the extent of unauthorised breaches of privacy during asylum determination processes, and proposing effective remedies for the future.