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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 politics. Her focus falls on cases as diverse as Guatemalan and Salvadoran women sexually abused during the Dirty Wars and transgender asylum seekers from around the world fleeing brutally violent situations. She reviews the claims, evidence, testimony, and message strategies that unfolded in these legal arguments and decisions, and illuminates how legal decisions turned gender into a political construct vulnerable to U.S. national and global interests. She also explores myriad related aspects of the process, including how subjects are racialized and the effects of that racialization, and the consequences of policies that position gender as a signifier for women via normative assumptions about sex and heterosexuality.
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 Criminal Justice Books Sara McKinnon's important book offers stunningly insightful and grounded examples of how twentieth and twenty-first century U.S. asylum decisions attempt to control non-normative gendered and sexual subjects. Her case studies carefully unearth the rhetorical relationships among gender's emergence as a political category, transnational imaginaries, and neoliberalisms rationalities; these powerful discourses deeply saturate US asylum logic. This well-researched and beautifully written study should be widely read by scholars who seek to gain insight into how a racialized sex/gender system works
along with geopolitical power
to codify not only the US asylum system, but also other political institutions whose policies regulate peoples everyday well-being.
Rebecca Dingo, author of Networking Arguments: Rhetoric, Transnational Feminism, and Public Policy Writing Recommended.
Choice Gendered Asylum provides a rich and crucial intervention that expands our comprehension of gender and gender violence in U.S. asylum cases.
AED: A Journal in GLBTQ Worldmaking McKinnon's voice is necessary and valuable in explaining how women are reduced to their bodies and denied their political agency. Those interested in discourses and representational practices regarding gender as a category will be prompted to consider the crucial links between gender, asylum, and U.S. power.
Journal of American Ethnic History
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 Criminal Justice Books Sara McKinnon's important book offers stunningly insightful and grounded examples of how twentieth and twenty-first century U.S. asylum decisions attempt to control non-normative gendered and sexual subjects. Her case studies carefully unearth the rhetorical relationships among gender's emergence as a political category, transnational imaginaries, and neoliberalisms rationalities; these powerful discourses deeply saturate US asylum logic. This well-researched and beautifully written study should be widely read by scholars who seek to gain insight into how a racialized sex/gender system works
along with geopolitical power
to codify not only the US asylum system, but also other political institutions whose policies regulate peoples everyday well-being.
Rebecca Dingo, author of Networking Arguments: Rhetoric, Transnational Feminism, and Public Policy Writing Recommended.
Choice Gendered Asylum provides a rich and crucial intervention that expands our comprehension of gender and gender violence in U.S. asylum cases.
AED: A Journal in GLBTQ Worldmaking McKinnon's voice is necessary and valuable in explaining how women are reduced to their bodies and denied their political agency. Those interested in discourses and representational practices regarding gender as a category will be prompted to consider the crucial links between gender, asylum, and U.S. power.
Journal of American Ethnic History