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"Women filing gender-based asylum claims long faced skepticism and outright rejection within the U.S. immigration system. Despite erratic progress, the United States still fails to recognize gender as an established category for experiencing persecution. Gender exists in a sort of limbo segregated from other aspects of identity and experience. Sara McKinnon exposes racialized rhetorics of violence in politics and charts the development of gender as a category in U.S. asylum law. Starting with the late 1980s, when gender-based requests first emerged in case law, McKinnon analyzes gender and…
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3 editions- Other · English · 2016University of Illinois Press · 192 pages · 9780252081910
- Other · English · 2016University of Illinois Press · 192 pages · 9780252040450
- Other · English · 2016University of Illinois Press · 192 pages · 9780252098888
Refugees, legal status, laws, etc.Refugees, united statesSex discrimination, law and legislationTransgender peopleWomen's rightsUnited states, race relationsRefugeesLegal status, laws