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<p>Across multiple asylum regimes, queer African claimants face systemic disbelief that is neither accidental nor neutral. This article examines how credibility in asylum law is shaped by colonial legacies that gender and racialize truth itself. Drawing on feminist legal theory and African feminist jurisprudence, it conceptualizes “racialized disbelief” as a form of epistemic injustice that silences African queer voices within legal adjudication. Through a feminist comparative analysis of case law and policy frameworks in the United Kingdom, Germany, and Canada, the paper demonstrates how gendered and racialized structures of recognition persist across jurisdictions. It then proposes a feminist jurisprudence of recognition grounded in trauma-informed adjudication and African epistemologies of relational dignity. The argument advances ongoing debates in feminist legal studies by situating asylum adjudication as a crucial site of postcolonial feminist reconstruction.</p>

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Decolonizing Disbelief: A Feminist Legal Reconstruction of Queer Nigerian Asylum across Postcolonial Jurisdictions

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    2026年7月28日

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  • Adekunle Saheed Akinola

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Across multiple asylum regimes, queer African claimants face systemic disbelief that is neither accidental nor neutral. This article examines how credibility in asylum law is shaped by colonial legacies that gender and racialize truth itself. Drawing on feminist legal theory and African feminist jurisprudence, it conceptualizes “racialized disbelief” as a form of epistemic injustice that silences African queer voices within legal adjudication. Through a feminist comparative analysis of case law and policy frameworks in the United Kingdom, Germany, and Canada, the paper demonstrates how gendered and racialized structures of recognition persist across jurisdictions. It then proposes a feminist jurisprudence of recognition grounded in trauma-informed adjudication and African epistemologies of relational dignity. The argument advances ongoing debates in feminist legal studies by situating asylum adjudication as a crucial site of postcolonial feminist reconstruction.