List of Publications

Academic publications

1. A transgender studies approach to gender identity and expression-based asylum claims based on a critical doctrinal and discourse analysis of CJEU and ECtHR jurisprudence. PhD Thesis. Maynooth University 2023- open access. https://mural.maynoothuniversity.ie/17560/

2. Trans*it: Narratives of trans and non-binary asylum applicants in the broader West, Sexualities Special Issue (Here Vs There), April 2021- open access. https://doi.org/10.1177/13634607211013278.

3. Assessing trans and gender nonconforming asylum claims: Towards a Transgender Studies Framework in Particular Social Group and Persecution, Refugees and Conflict in Frontiers in Human Dynamics, Refugees and Conflict, April 2021-- Award of open-access publication fees. https://doi.org/10.3389/fhumd.2021.653583

4. An EU-US Comparative Legal Analysis of Transgender Asylum Adjudication (UnLocal’ Queer Immigrant project online report, July 2023.- open access. -https://www.sogica.org/database/avgeri-comparative-report-on-transgender-and-gender-nonconforming-asylum-adjudication-in-the-eu-and-the-us-2023/

5. ‘MB vs Secretary of State for Work and Pensions (European Union): A Transgender Studies rewriting of the MB judgment by the Court of Justice of the European Union.’ In Ferreira, N, Moscati, M, Raj, S. (Eds) Queer Judgements Project. Counterpress, 2025. https://www.queerjudgments.org/mariza-avgeri

6. Under review: Complicating transexual, transgender and gender nonconforming identities in EU asylum law based on Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) jurisprudence

7. Under review: Gender identity, asylum and the ECHR: a critical doctrinal analysis of extraterritorial gender rights.

Publications in expert blogs

8. ‘Intersex identities’, Sibeal Feminist and Gender Studies Network Blog Series, 2020. Available at: https://www.sibealnetwork.org/post/intersex-identities

9. ‘Non-binary People Around the World and the Elan-Cane Case, JURIST – Professional Commentary, July 8, 2021. Available at: https://www.jurist.org/commentary/2021/07/mariza-avgeri-non-binary-people-elan-cane/