LGBTI immigrants in Italy and asylum rights: between unvoiced needs, discriminations and lack of recognition

The present paper aims at underlining how Western countries help outline the debate on gender differences, through a perspective which, more often than not, shows a certain degree of ethnocentrism given its inability to take into consideration alternative models emerging in other contexts – particularly those with an Islamic tradition. This aspect has been highlighted by the results of a research on the problems posed by the asylum right recognition process to LGBTI foreigners in the host countries. It draws attention to the agreement to a Western gay lifestyle model far from simple and unquestioningly accepted by LGBTI migrants