This report is an effort to address information gaps regarding how gendered claims are addressed by adjudicators at Canada’s Refugee Protection Division of the Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada (the RPD). It looks at one specific type of gendered claim: persecution through domestic or intimate violence. The study considers all the RPD decisions from 2004 to 2009 and judicial reviews from 2005 to 2009 that were reported in the Quicklaw LexisNexis service. These decisions are analyzed both quantitatively and qualitatively. This report finds adjudicators consistently identify domestic violence as a form of gendered persecution that can form a nexus to a convention ground. However, despite contrary directions from the Gender Guidelines, a...
Women and children make up the vast majority of the world’s refugee population. However, in the Unit...
Canadian law provides many excuses for men who commit crimes of violence against women; this article...
A partir de l’analyse de l’adoption et de l’emploi du concept de victime par le militantisme féminis...
This case comment takes a critical Canadian look at gender-based refugee claims in light of the rece...
In Canadian refugee law, women asylum seekers experience significant evidentiary hurdles, specifical...
This article examines Canadian refugee law cases involving domestic violence, analyzed through a com...
The definition of a refugee contained in the Canadian Immigration Act requires that refugee claimant...
In this paper, the author presents an overview of the evolution of gender-related issues in the dete...
In 1993, Canada was the first country to formally open its doors to refugees fleeing gender-related ...
In this article, the author examines the socio-legal relevance of the « battered woman syndrome » (B...
Abstract\ud \ud Women claiming refugee status in Canada must demonstrate to the Immigration and Refu...
This article introduces the report entitled Gendering Canada’s Refugee Process released by Status of...
La Constitution indienne garantit aux femmes l’égalité civique et c’est à l’État indien de s’assurer...
This paper explores intersectionality of oppression and social agency in refugee narratives of four ...
The faces of refugees are overwhelmingly female: women and children represent over 80 per cent of th...
Women and children make up the vast majority of the world’s refugee population. However, in the Unit...
Canadian law provides many excuses for men who commit crimes of violence against women; this article...
A partir de l’analyse de l’adoption et de l’emploi du concept de victime par le militantisme féminis...
This case comment takes a critical Canadian look at gender-based refugee claims in light of the rece...
In Canadian refugee law, women asylum seekers experience significant evidentiary hurdles, specifical...
This article examines Canadian refugee law cases involving domestic violence, analyzed through a com...
The definition of a refugee contained in the Canadian Immigration Act requires that refugee claimant...
In this paper, the author presents an overview of the evolution of gender-related issues in the dete...
In 1993, Canada was the first country to formally open its doors to refugees fleeing gender-related ...
In this article, the author examines the socio-legal relevance of the « battered woman syndrome » (B...
Abstract\ud \ud Women claiming refugee status in Canada must demonstrate to the Immigration and Refu...
This article introduces the report entitled Gendering Canada’s Refugee Process released by Status of...
La Constitution indienne garantit aux femmes l’égalité civique et c’est à l’État indien de s’assurer...
This paper explores intersectionality of oppression and social agency in refugee narratives of four ...
The faces of refugees are overwhelmingly female: women and children represent over 80 per cent of th...
Women and children make up the vast majority of the world’s refugee population. However, in the Unit...
Canadian law provides many excuses for men who commit crimes of violence against women; this article...
A partir de l’analyse de l’adoption et de l’emploi du concept de victime par le militantisme féminis...