policing the borders of nation, race, and gender
- Categories
- Article/Artikel
- Magazine Title
- Canadian Journal of Women and the Law
- Magazine Year
- 1995
- Magazine Number
- 1
- Creator
- Razack, Sherene
- Thesaurus
- vreemdelingenrecht, huiselijk geweld, asiel, sekse, Canada
- Description
- This essay begins with a two-part discussion of the subject of gender persecution: 'who is the subject in Western feminist theory?' and subsequently, 'who is the subject in the burgeoning legal scholarship on gender persecution?' The author argues that the subject is a culturally othered women. She then turn to examples of how the concept of gender persecution operates in cases brought before the Canadian Immigration and Refugee Board under the new gender persecution guidelines to Canada's Immigration Act. The cases she discusses primarily involve domestic violence.