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Studies on LGBT migration in the [[Mexico]]-[[Central America]] region have indicated that LGBT individuals are particularly vulnerable to violence stemming from [[homophobia]] or [[transphobia]], as well as risks such as physical and [[sexual violence]], experiences many have already endured throughout their lives, often resulting in trauma. Many LGBT migrants, particularly [[gay men]] and [[Trans woman|trans women]], engage in or return to [[sex work]] during waiting periods to survive and continue their journeys, exposing themselves to violence and risks to their physical and emotional health.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Cortés |first=Almudena |date=2018-06-19 |title=Violencia de género y frontera: migrantes centroamericanas en México hacia los EEUU |url=https://www.erlacs.org/article/10.18352/erlacs.10321/ |journal=European Review of Latin American and Caribbean Studies {{!}} Revista Europea de Estudios Latinoamericanos y del Caribe |volume=0 |issue=105 |pages=39 |doi=10.18352/erlacs.10321 |issn=1879-4750}}</ref><ref name=":8">{{Cite journal |lastlast1=Llanes-Díaz |firstfirst1=Nathaly |last2=Odgers-Ortiz |first2=Olga |last3=Bojórquez-Chapela |first3=Ietza |last4=Valenzuela-Barreras |first4=José Francisco |date=December 2023-12 |title=Narrative strategies to re-signify sexual violence among gender and sexuality diverse Central American migrants in Tijuana |url=https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13691058.2023.2233579 |journal=Culture, Health & Sexuality |language=en |volume=25 |issue=12 |pages=1612–1625 |doi=10.1080/13691058.2023.2233579 |pmid=37477878 |issn=1369-1058}}</ref><ref name=":9">{{Cite journal |lastlast1=Soria-Escalante |firstfirst1=Hada |last2=Alday-Santiago |first2=Alejandra |last3=Alday-Santiago |first3=Erika |last4=Limón-Rodríguez |first4=Natalia |last5=Manzanares-Melendres |first5=Pamela |last6=Tena-Castro |first6=Adriana |date=April 2022-04 |title=“We"We All Get Raped”Raped": Sexual Violence Against Latin American Women in Migratory Transit in Mexico |url=http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/10778012211013909 |journal=Violence Against Women |language=en |volume=28 |issue=5 |pages=1259–1281 |doi=10.1177/10778012211013909 |pmid=34096387 |issn=1077-8012}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |lastlast1=Yarwood |firstfirst1=Vanessa |last2=Checchi |first2=Francesco |last3=Lau |first3=Karen |last4=Zimmerman |first4=Cathy |date=2022-01-13 |title=LGBTQI + Migrants: A Systematic Review and Conceptual Framework of Health, Safety and Wellbeing during Migration |url=https://www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/19/2/869 |journal=International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health |language=en |volume=19 |issue=2 |pages=869 |doi=10.3390/ijerph19020869 |doi-access=free |pmid=35055698 |pmc=8775429 |issn=1660-4601}}</ref>

During bureaucratic processes, LGBT individuals seeking legal migration face homophobia or transphobia, as well as systems ill-equipped to handle their cases and instances of abuse of power. Transgender individuals, especially women, frequently experience sexual assaults and discrimination in shelters where they are denied spaces corresponding to their gender identity. In shelters dedicated to LGBT migrants specifically, their freedom to express gender and sexuality is compromised by controls over aspects such as friendships, sexual relationships, and expressions of love.<ref name=":8" /><ref>{{Cite journal |lastlast1=Cadena |firstfirst1=Kenia Ortiz |last2=Castañeda-Camey |first2=Nicté |last3=Sánchez |first3=Rubén García |date=September 2020-09 |title=Migrantes LGBT+ en las caravanas centroamericanas hacia Estados Unidos: dilemas y posibilidades para la construcción de redes de hospitalidad |url=http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1980-85852020000300071&tlng=es |journal=REMHU: Revista Interdisciplinar da Mobilidade Humana |volume=28 |issue=60 |pages=71–94 |doi=10.1590/1980-85852503880006005 |issn=2237-9843}}</ref>[[File:2019 CSD Kölm 058.jpg|thumb|LGBT refugees at a demonstration in [[Cologne]], [[Germany]], 2019.]]

LGBT rights in AsianAsia are constrained significantly. LGBT people face discrimination, marginalization, and, in some Asian countries, criminalization, including death penalty. LGBT migrants from Asian countries constitute a big proportion of asylum-seekers. There are only a few countries in Asia that are LGBT-friendly countries. LGBT individuals in Asia migrate from less tolerant to more LGBT-friednlyfriendly areas both domestically and internationally.{{See also|LGBT rights in Asia}}'''Taiwan'''

In 2017, same-sex marrriagemarriage was were legalized in Taiwan. Taiwan was the first East Asian country to legalize same-sex marririagemarriage. The legalization of same-sex marriage marriages makes Taiwan attractive to LGBT migrants from other Asian countries.<ref>Chang, Hsin-Chieh. (2019). Marriage Migration in Asia: The migration of LGBTQ persons for reasons of marriage between Asian countries.</ref>

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