Add to ORKGThe recent granting of asylum in the United States to the women in the highly publicized Matter of R-A- and Matter of L-R- cases has opened doors for other women fleeing horrific violence at the hands of their husbands and partners. Some immigration judges have begun to accept domestic violence as a basis for asylum as a result of the U.S. government’s approach in these cases. However, the absence of binding jurisprudential and regulatory norms remains a major impediment to fair and consistent outcomes for women who fear returning to countries where they face heinous abuse, or even death. While disparities in asylum adjudication in the United States have been well documented, exposing failures in the administrative system has had minimal im...
Intimate partner violence has been recognized by asylum-providing countries as a form of persecution...
After over a decade of advocacy on behalf of women fleeing their home countries because of horrific ...
A gender revolution has transformed the institution of asylum in the United States. The introduction...
The recent granting of asylum in the United States to the women in the highly publicized Matter of R...
For over a decade, women seeking asylum from persecution inflicted by their abusive husbands and par...
Over the past several decades, applications for asylum by women who claim membership in a particular...
For over fifteen years, U.S. immigration authorities and courts have grappled with the idea of domes...
In August 2014, the Board of Immigration Appeals (“BIA”) issued its first published decision recogni...
For over a decade, women seeking asylum from persecution inflicted by their abusive husbands and par...
In this Note, Anita Sinha examines the treatment of asylum claims involving gender-related persecuti...
Pitiful. Helpless. Powerless. The words often used to describe survivors of domestic violence conjur...
In the 1960s and 1970s, the women’s movement brought the issue of domestic violence to the forefront...
Asylum cases involving domestic violence or gang-related violence already had high burdens to overco...
Women and children make up the vast majority of the world’s refugee population. However, in the Unit...
Perhaps no area of public legislation generates as much controversy, or attracts as much rhetoric, a...
Intimate partner violence has been recognized by asylum-providing countries as a form of persecution...
After over a decade of advocacy on behalf of women fleeing their home countries because of horrific ...
A gender revolution has transformed the institution of asylum in the United States. The introduction...
The recent granting of asylum in the United States to the women in the highly publicized Matter of R...
For over a decade, women seeking asylum from persecution inflicted by their abusive husbands and par...
Over the past several decades, applications for asylum by women who claim membership in a particular...
For over fifteen years, U.S. immigration authorities and courts have grappled with the idea of domes...
In August 2014, the Board of Immigration Appeals (“BIA”) issued its first published decision recogni...
For over a decade, women seeking asylum from persecution inflicted by their abusive husbands and par...
In this Note, Anita Sinha examines the treatment of asylum claims involving gender-related persecuti...
Pitiful. Helpless. Powerless. The words often used to describe survivors of domestic violence conjur...
In the 1960s and 1970s, the women’s movement brought the issue of domestic violence to the forefront...
Asylum cases involving domestic violence or gang-related violence already had high burdens to overco...
Women and children make up the vast majority of the world’s refugee population. However, in the Unit...
Perhaps no area of public legislation generates as much controversy, or attracts as much rhetoric, a...
Intimate partner violence has been recognized by asylum-providing countries as a form of persecution...
After over a decade of advocacy on behalf of women fleeing their home countries because of horrific ...
A gender revolution has transformed the institution of asylum in the United States. The introduction...