What works to support LGBTQ refugees?

Post Title	Strength of Evidence	Type of Study	Direction of Evidence
Serving LGBTQ immigrants and building welcoming communities	Suggestive	Suggestive evidence	No evidence about impact
Rainbow Response: A practical guide to resettling LGBT refugees and asylees.	Suggestive	Suggestive evidence	No evidence about impact
To best support LGBTQ immigrant newcomers: Community dialogue participatory recommendation report.	Suggestive	Suggestive evidence	No evidence about impact
LGBTI asylum seekers and refugees from a legal and political perspective: Persecution, asylum and integration	Suggestive	Suggestive evidence	No evidence about impact
Benefits for immigrant-origin and nonimmigrant-origin youth of discussing immigration in gender and sexuality alliances	Suggestive	Suggestive evidence	Positive impact
Contstructing the personal narratives of lesbian, gay and bisexual asylum claimants	Suggestive	Systematic review	No evidence about impact
Demographic characteristics, torture experiences, and posttraumatic stress disorder symptoms among asylum seekers and refugees persecuted for same-sex behaviors	Suggestive	Suggestive evidence	No evidence about impact
The impact of discrimination on mental health symptomology in sexual minority immigrant Latinas	Suggestive	Suggestive evidence	No evidence about impact
Psychological distress, suicidal ideation, and suicide attempt among lesbian, gay, and bisexual immigrants: Population-based findings from the Stockholm public health cohort	Suggestive	Suggestive evidence	No evidence about impact
Queer, beyond a reasonable doubt: Refugee experiences of ‘passing’ into ‘membership of a particular social group’	Suggestive	Suggestive evidence	No evidence about impact
Minority stress, social integration, and the mental health needs of LGBTQ asylum seekers in North America	Suggestive	Suggestive evidence	No evidence about impact
The “particular social group” requirement: How they asylum process is consistently failing LGB applicants and how an evidentiary standard of “self-attestation” can remedy these failures	Suggestive	Suggestive evidence	No evidence about impact
Providing care for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender immigrants at health centers and clinics	Suggestive	Suggestive evidence	No evidence about impact
Investigating the British asylum system for lesbian, gay and bisexual asylum-seekers: Theoretical and empirical perspectives on fairness	Suggestive	Suggestive evidence	No evidence about impact
Sexual orientation and refugee law: How do legal sanctions criminalizing homosexuality engage the definition of persecution?	Suggestive	Suggestive evidence	No evidence about impact
Fleeing the closet: Inclusive refugee programs and LGBTQ policy in the asylum seeing process	Suggestive	Suggestive evidence	No evidence about impact
Seeking asylum: Challenges faced by the LGB community	Suggestive	Suggestive evidence	No evidence about impact
Queer credibility in the homonation-state: Interrogating the affective impacts of credibility assessments on racialized sexual minority refugee claimants	Suggestive	Suggestive evidence	No evidence about impact
Creating welcoming communities for LGBTQ migrants: Living room-style chats for service providers	Suggestive	Suggestive evidence	Positive impact
Speak out! Structural intersectionality and anti-oppresive practice with LGBTQ refugees in Canada	Suggestive	Suggestive evidence	No evidence about impact
Serving LGBTQ immigrants and building welcoming communities	Suggestive	Suggestive evidence	No evidence about impact
Rainbow Response: A practical guide to resettling LGBT refugees and asylees	Suggestive	Suggestive evidence	No evidence about impact
Benefits for immigrant-origin and nonimmigrant-origin youth of discussing immigration in gender and sexuality alliances	Suggestive	Suggestive evidence	Positive impact

Websites and Databases	Population Terms	Methodology Terms	Target Intervention Terms
PubMed  ASSIA  Social Services Abstracts  Social Work Abstracts  PsycInfo  Google Scholar	(refugee  OR  immigrant  OR  “unaccompanied minor”  OR  asylee  OR  “temporary protected status”  OR   “victims of traffick*”   OR  “traffick* victims”  OR  T-Visa  OR  U-Visa  OR  Cuban  OR   Haitian  OR  Amerasian)  AND  (LGB*   OR   LGBTQ   OR   lesbian   OR   gay   OR   “sexual orientation”   OR   “gender identity”   OR   SOGI   OR   transgender   OR   queer)	evaluation   OR   impact  OR  program   OR   intervention   OR  policy   OR   Project  OR  train*  OR  therapy  OR  treatment  OR  counseling  OR   workshop  OR  review   OR  meta-analysis  OR  synthesis	N/A