Shiner, Cindy,
Family's Long Road to Asylum a Difficult One. Cindy Shiner. - VOANews.com, 2005. - SIRS Enduring Issues 2006. Article 52, Human Relations, 1522-3248; .
Articles Contained in SIRS Enduring Issues 2006. 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.
1522-3248;
Asylum
Emigration and immigration law
Female circumcision
Immigrants--Services for
Women--Africa
AC1.S5
050
Family's Long Road to Asylum a Difficult One. Cindy Shiner. - VOANews.com, 2005. - SIRS Enduring Issues 2006. Article 52, Human Relations, 1522-3248; .
Articles Contained in SIRS Enduring Issues 2006. 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.
1522-3248;
Asylum
Emigration and immigration law
Female circumcision
Immigrants--Services for
Women--Africa
AC1.S5
050