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a comparative analysis of legal approaches to recognizing asylum claims based on gender persecution
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- Harvard Women's Law Journal
- Magazine Year
- 2002
- Creator
- Randall, Melanie
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- asiel, geweld, relaties, huiselijk geweld, seksisme, vluchtelingen, vreemdelingenrecht, Canada
- Description
- The author adresses two central themes in the determination of claims for asylum made by women fleeing gender persecution. The first of these is the set of definitional hurdles women face in framing claims that are based on gender persecution, most often revolving around the 'most elastic and nebulous' category - 'membership in a particular social group.' The second is the state's relationship to the persecution being claimed and, most critically, its ability to protect the claimant, a particularly fraught dilemma in cases of violence perpetrated in intimate relationships and in the context of the so-called 'private' sphere.
policing the borders of nation, race, and gender
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- Canadian Journal of Women and the Law
- Magazine Year
- 1995
- Magazine Number
- 1
- Creator
- Razack, Sherene
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- vreemdelingenrecht, huiselijk geweld, asiel, sekse, Canada
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- 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.
a particular social group : islam v. secretary of state for the Home Department: R. v. Immigration Appeal Tribunal and Another, Ex parte Shah
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- Feminist Legal Studies
- Magazine Year
- 1999
- Magazine Number
- 3
- Creator
- Kirvan, S.
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- vluchtelingen, asiel, huiselijk geweld, islam, moslima's, Pakistan, Verenigde Staten
- Description
- This note examines the judgement of the House of Lords in the cases of Islam and Shah, particularly with regard to their conclusion that women in Pakistan who were victims of domestic violence and not protected by their state could qualify as members of a particular social group under the Geneva Convention, and therefore attain refugee status. The note considers the Refugee Women's Legal Group's Gender Guidelines for the Determination of Asylum Claims in het UK, and discusses the problems faced by women who claim refugee status. Finally, the conceptualisation of domestic violence as a political issue and therefore a matter falling within the scope of the Convention issue is analysed.
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