Scheeringa, Ellen
(2023)
Policies around honour-based violence and LGBTQ+ people.
Master thesis, Master Religion Conflict and Globalisation.
Abstract
A lot of research has been conducted on honour-based violence and violence against the LGBTQ+ community. However, on the intersection of the two topics, academic research is lacking. Therefore, this thesis will focus on LGBTQ+ people who have encountered honour-based violence because of their sexual and/or gender identity. More specifically, it examines on how LGBTQ+ people are included in Dutch policies on honour-based violence and how this influence the treatment and care they can receive afterwards. Through analyzing two semi-structured interviews with professionals from organizations who offer treatment and support to survivors of honour-based violence, a document analysis of five organizations who also offer treatment and support and a factsheet published on the Dutch government site, I have aimed to answer these questions. I have found that LGBTQ+ people are not specifically included in Dutch policies about honour-based violence, the lack of one definition on honour-based violence might be an explanation for this. Moreover, I have found that the treatment and support organizations offer for LGBTQ+ persons after honour-based violence are not regulated and organizations are therefore free to choose how they would like to fill this in. From the conducted interviews, it became clear that the caregivers focus and talk about topics as sexuality, gender, culture and religion with the survivor to better understand their background.
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Thesis
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| Degree programme: |
Master Religion Conflict and Globalisation |
| Academic year: |
2022-2023 |
| Date of delivery: |
23 Nov 2023 09:25 |
| Last modified: |
23 Nov 2023 09:25 |
| URI: |
https://ggw.studenttheses.ub.rug.nl/id/eprint/768 |
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