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Searching for a New Home, New York LGTBI Asylum Seekers Find Old Discrimination in their Diasporas

December 17, 2024 by Pau Torres Pagès

People walk with rainbow flags.

For many Russian migrants with little to no English knowledge, the Russian-speaking community in Brighton Beach, a coastline neighborhood in Coney Island, Brooklyn, is the best chance to get a job and start a new life in New York. But for Simon, a trans man from Moscow who is seeking asylum in the US, it […]

Filed Under: Social Justice, The City Tagged With: asylum, immigration, LGBTQ, New York City, Russia

LGBTQ Asylum Seekers Look For a New Life in the US

January 3, 2019 by Sarah Patt

Alex needed a place to escape. With only one year left in his University studies, he could no longer stand the threats and physical violence he faced in his home country, even if that meant leaving his family, friends, and entire life in Russia behind. Now, just a few years later, Alex, who did not […]

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