Family's Long Road to Asylum a Difficult One. Cindy Shiner.
by Shiner, Cindy; ProQuest Information and Learning Company.
Series: SIRS Enduring Issues 2006Article 52Human Relations. Publisher: VOANews.com, 2005ISSN: 1522-3248;.Subject(s): Asylum | Emigration and immigration law | Female circumcision | Immigrants -- Services for | Women -- AfricaDDC classification: 050 Summary: "A landmark U.S. Board of Immigration Appeals decision in 1996 made it much easier for women to seek asylum in the United States on grounds of gender-based persecution. But asylum attorneys say a new case--that of a Guatemalan woman seeking asylum on grounds of spousal abuse--pending before the Supreme Court could reverse advances made in gender-based asylum claims." (VOANEWS.COM) This article reveals how the case of a woman who fled the West African nation of Guinea "with her three daughters two years ago [2003], saying she wanted to protect them from forced marriage and female genital excision and allow them to continue their educations" is awaiting a court ruling on gender-based asylum claims.| Item type | Current location | Call number | Status | Date due |
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Originally Published: Family's Long Road to Asylum a Difficult One, Feb. 18, 2005; pp. n.p..
"A landmark U.S. Board of Immigration Appeals decision in 1996 made it much easier for women to seek asylum in the United States on grounds of gender-based persecution. But asylum attorneys say a new case--that of a Guatemalan woman seeking asylum on grounds of spousal abuse--pending before the Supreme Court could reverse advances made in gender-based asylum claims." (VOANEWS.COM) This article reveals how the case of a woman who fled the West African nation of Guinea "with her three daughters two years ago [2003], saying she wanted to protect them from forced marriage and female genital excision and allow them to continue their educations" is awaiting a court ruling on gender-based asylum claims.
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