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Irish LGBT immigrants often experience vulnerability in the absence of family networks, which is exacerbated in the context of homophobia and sexual discrimination. Legal protection against sexual discrimination in employment was only introduced in the UK in 2003. Even when legislative provisions and support are in place, homophobia continues to make life and the process of migration difficult for queer migrants.<ref name="flood2" /> Irish immigrants tend to experience racial and ethnic privilege over immigrants from the Caribbean and Africa, but at the same time still face homophobia and transphobia that heterosexual and cisgender immigrants do not.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=McElhinny |first=Paul |date=2020 |title=Intersections between Queer, Irish, and Caribbean Migrants to London in Neil Jordan's "Last Rites" |url=https://muse.jhu.edu/article/766613 |journal=Intertexts |volume=24 |issue=1 |pages=76–96 |doi=10.1353/itx.2020.0004 |s2cid=243339991 |issn=2156-5465}}</ref>

 

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