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Gendered Asylum: Race and Violence in U.S. Law and Politics
Sara L. McKinnon
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Description for Gendered Asylum: Race and Violence in U.S. Law and Politics
Hardback. Series: Feminist Media Studies. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFSJ1; JPHC; JPV; LND. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 161 x 236 x 16. Weight in Grams: 418.
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 L. 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 sexuality-related cases against the backdrop of national and transnational ... Read more
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 L. 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 sexuality-related cases against the backdrop of national and transnational ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
University of Illinois Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Series
Feminist Media Studies
Condition
New
Weight
417g
Number of Pages
192
Place of Publication
Baltimore, United States
ISBN
9780252040450
SKU
V9780252040450
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About Sara L. McKinnon
Sara L. McKinnon is an assistant professor of rhetoric, politics, and culture in the Department of Communication Arts and affiliate faculty in global studies and gender and women's studies at University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Reviews for Gendered Asylum: Race and Violence in U.S. Law and Politics
Gendered Asylum is a valuable addition to recent work on human rights, immigration, and gender.
Quarterly Journal of Speech McKinnon draws out several key themes and conclusions, repeatedly highlighting how U.S. adjudicators 'otherize' gender-based violence and overlay a racist component to the harm that women asylum seekers have endured.
Criminal Law and ... Read more
Quarterly Journal of Speech McKinnon draws out several key themes and conclusions, repeatedly highlighting how U.S. adjudicators 'otherize' gender-based violence and overlay a racist component to the harm that women asylum seekers have endured.
Criminal Law and ... Read more