ABSTRACT
This chapter presents different socio-legal issue of sexuality-based asylum, which claims in order to further explore the understanding of property as spatially contingent belonging. Lesbian sexuality will function as property when lesbian relations are held up by the space through and in which they occur. Women seeking asylum on the basis of sexuality persecution are evidently moving from spaces where their sexuality was not held up to a space where they hope that their sexuality will be held up, and where they will thus be able to live a better life. The chapter looks at a more physically scattered landscape of women who are seeking to move, both physically and socially, from a space where they fear persecution to one where they belong. It also demonstrates refugee law requires claimants to present their home state as a dangerously homophobic space where they are uniformly and persistently at risk of sexuality persecution everywhere they go.
