In 2010, a landmark UK Supreme Court case was won on behalf of two gay men, from Cameroon and Iran, whose applications for asylum due to sexual identity had previously been rejected on the basis of a prevailing “reasonable tolerability” concept—that is, the view that gay applicants could conceal their homosexuality by acting discreetly upon…
Articles by Emma Cox
Emma Cox is Senior Lecturer in Drama and Theatre at Royal Holloway, University of London. Her research is concerned with the representation and participation of asylum seekers, refugees and migrants in theatre, film and activism. Books on this topic include Performing Noncitizenship (2015) and Theatre & Migration (2014). She is also the editor of the collection of Australian plays, Staging Asylum (2013), which was developed as an enhanced ebook in 2015.