Add to ORKGFor over fifteen years, U.S. immigration authorities and courts have grappled with the idea of domestic violence as a basis for asylum. But in 2014, the Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA) issued a decision indicating that victims of domestic violence may qualify for asylum. This Comment assesses the BIA’s decision and concludes that it is ultimately ineffective. This Comment further suggests that the only practical solution is for Congress to intervene. This Comment first provides a brief historical overview of asylum law to help elucidate the purpose of asylum law. It also provides an in-depth review of the elements needed to establish a successful asylum claim and surveys how previous domestic violence-based claims have fared. Next,...
In 2016, 15.4 million people across the globe, the majority being young women and girls in impoveris...
Over the past several decades, applications for asylum by women who claim membership in a particular...
Perhaps no area of public legislation generates as much controversy, or attracts as much rhetoric, a...
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...
The recent granting of asylum in the United States to the women in the highly publicized Matter of R...
Women and children make up the vast majority of the world’s refugee population. However, in the Unit...
Each year tens of thousands of immigrants head to the United States’ shores in the hope of achieving...
For over a decade, women seeking asylum from persecution inflicted by their abusive husbands and par...
For over a decade, women seeking asylum from persecution inflicted by their abusive husbands and par...
In the 1960s and 1970s, the women’s movement brought the issue of domestic violence to the forefront...
In this Note, Anita Sinha examines the treatment of asylum claims involving gender-related persecuti...
After over a decade of advocacy on behalf of women fleeing their home countries because of horrific ...
1 page.Latin American women who seek asylum in the United States often leave their homes to escape d...
Pitiful. Helpless. Powerless. The words often used to describe survivors of domestic violence conjur...
In 2016, 15.4 million people across the globe, the majority being young women and girls in impoveris...
Over the past several decades, applications for asylum by women who claim membership in a particular...
Perhaps no area of public legislation generates as much controversy, or attracts as much rhetoric, a...
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...
The recent granting of asylum in the United States to the women in the highly publicized Matter of R...
Women and children make up the vast majority of the world’s refugee population. However, in the Unit...
Each year tens of thousands of immigrants head to the United States’ shores in the hope of achieving...
For over a decade, women seeking asylum from persecution inflicted by their abusive husbands and par...
For over a decade, women seeking asylum from persecution inflicted by their abusive husbands and par...
In the 1960s and 1970s, the women’s movement brought the issue of domestic violence to the forefront...
In this Note, Anita Sinha examines the treatment of asylum claims involving gender-related persecuti...
After over a decade of advocacy on behalf of women fleeing their home countries because of horrific ...
1 page.Latin American women who seek asylum in the United States often leave their homes to escape d...
Pitiful. Helpless. Powerless. The words often used to describe survivors of domestic violence conjur...
In 2016, 15.4 million people across the globe, the majority being young women and girls in impoveris...
Over the past several decades, applications for asylum by women who claim membership in a particular...
Perhaps no area of public legislation generates as much controversy, or attracts as much rhetoric, a...