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Private Violence : Latin American Women and the Struggle for Asylum / Michele Waslin, Carol Cleaveland.

Cleaveland, Carol, author.; Waslin, Michele, author.
2024
HV6250.4.W65 C593 2024
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Title
Private Violence : Latin American Women and the Struggle for Asylum / Michele Waslin, Carol Cleaveland.
Author
Cleaveland, Carol, author.
ISBN
9781479824359
1479824356
DOI
https://doi.org/10.18574/nyu/9781479824359.001.0001
Published
New York, NY : New York University Press, [2024]
Copyright
2024
Language
English
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In English.
Description
1 online resource.
Item Number
10.18574/nyu/9781479824359.001.0001 doi
Call Number
HV6250.4.W65 C593 2024
Dewey Decimal Classification
362.87082/098
Summary
How the US asylum process fails to protect against claims of gender-based violenceThrough eyewitness accounts of closed-court proceedings and powerful testimony from women who have sought asylum in the United States because of severe assaults and death threats by intimate partners and/or gang members, Private Violence examines how immigration laws and policies shape the lives of Latin American women who seek safety in the United States. Carol Cleaveland and Michele Waslin describe the women's histories prior to crossing the border, and the legal strategies they use to convince Immigration Judges that rape and other forms of "private violence" should merit asylum - despite laws built on Cold War era assumptions that persecution occurs in the public sphere by state actors.Private Violence provides much-needed recommendations for incorporating a gender-based lens in the asylum process. The authors demonstrate how policy changes across Presidential administrations have made it difficult for survivors of "private violence" to qualify for asylum. Private Violence paints a damning portrait of America's broken asylum system. This volume illustrates the difficulties experienced by Latin American women who rely on this broken system for protection in the United States. It also illuminates women's resilience and the determination of immigration attorneys to reshape asylum law.
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Waslin, Michele, author.
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Latina/o Sociology ; 20
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Frontmatter
Contents
Introduction: Asylum, Trauma, and Marginalization
1. "Private Violence" and Public Policy
2. "Women Who Are Alone Suffer"
3. Violence at Home
4. Criminalizing Asylum
5. Trauma: Shared Meanings and Healing
6. "If I Offended Your Country, I'm Sorry."
Conclusion: The Architecture of Exclusion
Acknowledgments
Appendix: Methodology
Statutes, Regulations, and Legal Decisions
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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