Andrea Allen
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Countries of Expertise
Brazil | United States of America
Specialties
- Caste Discrimination/Persecution
- Ethnic Discrimination/Persecution
- FGM/FGC
- Gang-Related Violence/Non-State Actors
- Government/State Actor Persecution
- Healthcare Access/Health Systems Capacity
- HIV/AIDS
- LGBTQ
- Likelihood Of Destitution/Homelessness
- Mental Illness
- Political Persecution
- Religious Discrimination/Persecution
- Risk Of Retaliation
- Sexual Abuse/Assault
- Sufficiency Of Protection
- Torture
- Trafficking
- Tribal Discrimination/Persecution
About Andrea Allen
Dr. Andrea S. Allen’s research has addressed matters of race, sexuality, gender, violence, and religion in Brazil and the African Diaspora. Her first book Violence and Desire in Brazilian Lesbian Relationships (Palgrave Macmillan 2015) focused on the experiences of lesbian women in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil. Dr. Allen is currently working on a second book project about LGBT evangelical Brazilians, race, religious identity, and sexual subjectivity.
