Professor Yvonne Su
Since 2014, over 7.1 million Venezuelans have fled the country due to economic collapse and political ruin. In this talk, Professor Yvonne Su discusses her high-risk research into the homophobia, xenophobia, transphobia, and gender-based violence experienced by Venezuelan LGBTQ+ asylum seekers in the border cities of Pacaraima, Boa Vista, and Manaus in Brazil and Cúcuta in Colombia.
Venezuelan LGBTQ+ refugees face intersectional precarity in their host countries – they face overlapping and intersecting precarity due to their multiple social identities, because they are LGBT, because they are Venezuelan and because they are refugees. This intersecting precarity was exacerbated during the pandemic.
— Professor Yvonne Su