Add to ORKGIn this Note, Anita Sinha examines the treatment of asylum claims involving gender-related persecution. Analyzing the three most recent decisions published by the Board of Immigration Appeals, Sinha illustrates that these cases have turned on whether the gender-related violence can be linked to practices attributable to non-Western,\u27foreign cultures. Sinha argues that cases involving gender-related persecution can be given full consideration of asylum law only when their adjudication is based on an understanding of the political and institutional character of violence against women, rather than on cultural culpability. In making this argument, Sinha examines recent amendments to the regulations governing asylum law that have been prop...
This Article asserts that the requirement in U.S. asylum law that requires an asylee to make a showi...
In Canadian refugee law, women asylum seekers experience significant evidentiary hurdles, specifical...
This Note examines the unique dimensions of honor killing asylum claims and focuses on the claims br...
In this Note, Anita Sinha examines the treatment of asylum claims involving gender-related persecuti...
A gender revolution has transformed the institution of asylum in the United States. The introduction...
Perhaps no area of public legislation generates as much controversy, or attracts as much rhetoric, a...
Abstract Over the past decades, gender-based persecution has moved into the forefront of immigratio...
Over the past several decades, applications for asylum by women who claim membership in a particular...
Over the past decades, gender-based persecution has moved into the forefront of the immigration poli...
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...
Over the past twenty years, women’s human rights advocates have made significant gains in securing p...
In August 2014, the Board of Immigration Appeals (“BIA”) issued its first published decision recogni...
In recent years the gendered aspects of the 1951 refugee definition have been discussed within asylu...
For over fifteen years, U.S. immigration authorities and courts have grappled with the idea of domes...
This Article asserts that the requirement in U.S. asylum law that requires an asylee to make a showi...
In Canadian refugee law, women asylum seekers experience significant evidentiary hurdles, specifical...
This Note examines the unique dimensions of honor killing asylum claims and focuses on the claims br...
In this Note, Anita Sinha examines the treatment of asylum claims involving gender-related persecuti...
A gender revolution has transformed the institution of asylum in the United States. The introduction...
Perhaps no area of public legislation generates as much controversy, or attracts as much rhetoric, a...
Abstract Over the past decades, gender-based persecution has moved into the forefront of immigratio...
Over the past several decades, applications for asylum by women who claim membership in a particular...
Over the past decades, gender-based persecution has moved into the forefront of the immigration poli...
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...
Over the past twenty years, women’s human rights advocates have made significant gains in securing p...
In August 2014, the Board of Immigration Appeals (“BIA”) issued its first published decision recogni...
In recent years the gendered aspects of the 1951 refugee definition have been discussed within asylu...
For over fifteen years, U.S. immigration authorities and courts have grappled with the idea of domes...
This Article asserts that the requirement in U.S. asylum law that requires an asylee to make a showi...
In Canadian refugee law, women asylum seekers experience significant evidentiary hurdles, specifical...
This Note examines the unique dimensions of honor killing asylum claims and focuses on the claims br...