Modalidad Presencial
- En las instalciones del IIJ UNAM
Registro para asistencia presencial y constancia:
20 de agosto 2025
08:30 a 09:30 hrs.
Registration and light refreshments
Location: Aula Reforma Política de 1977
9:30 – 11:00 am
(solo la inaguración se transmitira)
Opening remarks from conference organizers
- Mauricio Padrón Innamorato, Academic Secretary, Instituto de Investigaciones Jurídicas-UNAM
- Luciana Gandini, Coordinator, Seminario Universitario de Estudios sobre Desplazamiento Interno, Migración, Exilio y Repatriación (SUDIMER)-UNAM
- Swathi Sekhar, Director of Protection Initiatives, Rainbow Railroad
- Ari Shaw, Director of Programs Internationals, UCLA Williams Institute
Presentation on meta-analysis findings by Nora Noralla followed by Q&A
- Ari Shaw moderating
11:15 am -12:30 pm
Location: Aula "Reforma Política de 1977"
Panel 1: Legal Realities of Queer Forced Displacement
Panel chair: Joseph Wiltberger - University of California, San Diego
Presenters:
● Hayriye Kara, Challenging the Judiciary: LGBTI+ Rights, Legal Struggles, and Alternative Advocacy in Turkey
● Danilo Manzano, Forced Displacement and LGBTIQ+ Migration in Latin America: An Intersectional Perspective from the Regional LGBTIQ+ Network for Human Mobility LAC
● Sarah Decker, Detained and Disappeared: Systemic Human Rights Abuses Against LGBTQ+ People Detained in US Immigration Jails
11:15 am -12:30 pm
Location: Sala "Niceto Alcalá-Zamora y Castillo"
Panel 2: Organizing and Activism for Queer Forced Displacement Rights
Panel Chair: Axel Bautista- MPact Global Action
11:15 am -12:30 pm
Location: Sala de juntas primer piso oriente
Workshop 1: Case study: How Global South NGOs can work with governments, diplomats, and other partners to address LGBTIQ+ forced displacement
Presenters:
● Dr. Douglas Janoff
● Dr. Ester Serra Mingot
11:15 am -12:30 pm
Location: Sala de juntas segundo piso oriente
Workshop 2: Healing Across Borders: Trauma-Informed Support for LGBTQI+ Refugees
Presenters:
● Faith Birungi
13:30 - 14:45 pm
Location: Aula "Reforma Política de 1977"
Panel 3: The Art of Storytelling in LGBTQ+ Refugee Claims: Narratives, Advocacy & Community Insights
Panel Chair: Flavio Carrera Verdesoto – Institute of Advanced Studies in Inequalities
Presenters:
● Maria Diaz and Viviana Santibanez
13:30 - 14:45 pm
Location: Sala "Niceto Alcalá-Zamora y Castillo"
Panel 4: Queer Migration in Anti-Rights Environments
Panel Chair:
Viviana Santibanez Jaimes – Founder, Vivi'r LGBTQ+
Presenters:
● Vahid Aliyev, Legislative discrimination and queer forced displacement in the South Caucasus
● René A. Tec-López, Migrating in Times of the Culture War: Religion, Anti-Woke Policies, and the Exclusion of Trans Migrants in Mexico
● Syrine Boukadida, The impact of anti-immigration and state racism on queer forced displaced: Tunisia as an example
13:30 - 14:45 pm
Location: Sala de juntas primer piso oriente
Workshop 3: Queer Humans on the Move: Stories of Leaving, Staying, and Resisting
Presenter:
● Carou Labonne - Out Moris
13:30 - 14:45 pm
Location: Sala de juntas segundo piso oriente
Workshop 4: Drafting a Multistakeholder Declaration for the Advancement of Rights for Queer Forcibly Displaced Individuals (first session)
Facilitated by Rainbow Railroad
15:00 - 16:15 pm
Location: Aula "Reforma Política de 1977"
Panel 5: Building Resilience Through Innovative Health Services and Policies
Panel Chair: Sarah Decker - Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights
Presenters:
● Kondwani Chapola - The Mental Health Impacts of Queer Forced Displacement: Addressing Trauma and Building Resilience
● Armando Velasquez - Estrategias efectivas para impulsar la participación de personas LGBTIQ+ desplazadas (voluntariado diverso)
● Enama Jean Paul - Health and Human Rights Challenges of Central African LGBTI Refugees in Cameroon
15:00 - 16:15 pm
Location: Sala "Niceto Alcalá-Zamora y Castillo"
Panel 6: Exploring Queer Migration Beyond Asylum Seeking
Panel Chair: Edward J. Alessi- Rutgers University - New Brunswick
Presenters:
● Anne Campbell, Ph.D., Queer international students and visa-mandated migration
● Akira Sawata, “Moving for Hope”: Queer and Trans Displacement through Internal Evasion, Educational Migration, and Disaster Evacuation in Japan
● Nine, “I will fight for LGBTQ community one day”: Garabtaag’s engagement with queer refugees in Malaysia
15:00 - 16:15 pm
Location: Sala de juntas primer piso oriente
Workshop 5: Helping LGBTQ+ Newcomers Thrive: My Work with VIVI’R
Presenter:
● Christian Giraldo - VIVI'R LGBTQ+
15:00 - 16:15 pm
Location: Sala de juntas segundo piso oriente
Workshop 6: Navigating Intersectional Displacement: Afro-Descendant LGBTQI+ Experiences in Forced Migration
Presenter:
● Rodrigo Tadeu Guimaraes Jales – ReportOUT
22 de agosto 2025
10:30 - 11:45 am
Location: Aula "Reforma Política de 1977"
Panel 1: Resettlement and Relocation Dynamics
Panel Chair: Kondwani Chapola - Community Health Rights Advocacy (CHeRA), Safe Space Allies Organization (SSAO), ReportOUT and Key Population Trans collaboration (KP-TNC)
Presenters:
● Kristen Miccile. No Single Path: Tailored Protection for LGBTQI+ Individuals Navigating Displacement in Sub-Saharan Africa
● Elif Sari, Stuckness and Iranian LGBTQ+ Refugees in Turkey
● Aaden Pearson, Challenges for Trans Asylum Seekers in an Era of Anti-Trans Hostility
10:30 - 11:45 am
Location: Aula "Dr. Guillermo Floris Margadant"
Panel 2: Support Networks and Families for Queer Forced Displaced People
Panel Chair:
Dr. Douglas Janoff – Independent
Presenters:
● Donwell Mpofu, Queer Parenthood in Forced Displacement: Challenges, Resilience, and Advocacy (virtual)
● Shooky Shi, Sport as a Support Network: The Study on the Sports Participation Experience of Chinese Queer Individuals Facing Displacement
● Maria Cristina Yepez Arroyo, Roots in the Sea: The Hard Work of LGBTIQ+ Migrants’ Families to Have Each Other
10:30 - 11:45 am
Location: Aula "Centenario"
Panel 3: Militarism, Conflict and Queer Forced Displacement
Panel Chair: Ogochukwu Jones Okolie - Independent Trans Activist
Presenters:
● Virtual - Jasmin Lilian Diab, Missiles and Misfits: Reimagining Home and Security for Queer Internally Displaced Persons From South Lebanon
● Ribal Maatouk and Mario Touma, LGBTIQ+ lives amidst the war on Lebanon and the humanitarian response
● Kyi Nyein, Queer Lives on the Run: Forced Displacement in Myanmar
10:30 - 11:45 am
Location: Sala de juntas primer piso oriente
Workshop 1: City of Belonging- Developing an intersectional queer-immigrant conscious ecosystem
Presenter:
● Muhammad Burhan - Intersectional Innovation and Impact Labs
10:30 - 11:45 am
Location: Sala de juntas segundo piso oriente
Workshop 2: Latino-PositHIVe Resistance. How do we build community for displaced gay, bi and queer Latino/x people living with HIV?
Presenter:
● Axel Bautista- MPact Global Action.
12:00 - 13:15 pm
Location: Aula "Reforma Política de 1977"
Panel 4: Innovative Research for Advancement of Rights of Queer Forced Displaced People
Panel Chair: Kristen Miccile - independent
Presenters:
● Joseph Salazar and Sebastián Raza, Doing gender through violent displacement: Carolina's lines of flight
● Edward J. Alessi, Community-Engaged Research in the Face of Xenophobia: Insights from a Mixed-Methods Study with Latino Sexual Minority Migrant Men
12:00 - 13:15 pm
Location: Aula "Dr. Guillermo Floris Margadant"
Panel 5: Latin America in Focus
Panel Chair: Daniel Barría-Yorins - SENACYT Panamá—Universidad de Buenos Aires, Facultad de Ciencias Sociales
Presenters:
● Joseph Wiltberger and Laura Gomez Mera, LGBTQI+ Asylum Seekers and Refugees in South America: Identifying Challenges to Protection
● Flavio Carrera Verdesoto, Breaking Barriers: Legal, Social, and Economic Integration of LGBTIQ+ People in Human Mobility and Forced Displacement
● Frank Evelio Arteaga Flores, Sexual and reproductive health services and access to abortion for migrants and internally displaced persons in Bolivia
12:00 - 13:15 pm
Location: Aula "Centenario"
Panel 6: Casa Frida
12:00 - 13:15 pm
Location: Sala de juntas primer piso oriente
Workshop 3: Building Bridges: Community-Led Mental Health Support for Queer Displaced Individuals
Presenter:
● Patricia Luna Gonzalez, LMFT - Pomona Valley Pride Center
12:00 - 13:15 pm
Location: Sala de juntas segundo piso oriente
Workshop 4: Precarity in Transit: Reassessing Protection Frameworks for LGBTQI+ Displaced Populations in Non-Convention Contexts
Presenter:
● Ryan J Figueiredo - Equal Asia Foundation
14:15 - 15:30 pm
Location: Aula "Reforma Política de 1977"
Panel 7: The Politics of Queer Forced Displacements Panel Chair: Anne Campbell - Independent Researcher
Presenters:
● Daniel Barría-Yorins, A queer approach to democratic participation: Nicaraguan LGBTIQ+ voices in Costa Rica in the aftermath of the 2018 crisis. ● ● Víctor Hugo Gutiérrez Albertos - Entre la muerte y la fuga. Diversidad sexual acorralada
14:15 - 15:30 pm
Location: Aula "Dr. Guillermo Floris Margadant"
Panel 8: Young Individuals and Forced Displacement: An Examination of Queer Forced Displacement Among Youth
Panel Chair: Elif Sari - University of British Columbia
Presenters:
● Jones O. Okolie, Beneath the waters: Challenges in addressing homelessness among LGBTQI+ youths experiencing forced displacement in Nigeria
● Fernando Salinas-Quiroz and Anaamika Nair, Bordered Identities, Queer Survival: Navigating Policy and Protection for LGBTQ+ Migrant Youth in Massachusetts
● Androgenius Alpha, Education as a Core Pillar of Queer Forced Displacement
14:15 - 15:30 pm
Location: Sala de juntas primer piso oriente
Workshop 5: Drafting a Multistakeholder Declaration for the Advancement of Rights for Queer Forcibly Displaced Individuals (second session)
Presenter:
● Rainbow Railroad
16:00 a 17:00 pm
Location: Aula "Dr. Guillermo Floris Margadant"
Closing remarks and next steps - Rainbow Railroad
Transmisión en vivo solo de la inaguración:
Instituto de Investigaciones Jurídicas, UNAM
