Thematic Focus: Gender-related Issues - Pt. 1

New open access book:

Practicing Asylum: A Handbook for Expert Witnesses in Latin American Gender- and Sexuality-Based Asylum Cases (Univ. of California Press, June 2023) [open access]

- "This multidisciplinary volume brings together experienced expert witnesses and immigration attorneys to highlight best practices and strategies for giving expert testimony in asylum cases. As the scale and severity of violence in Latin America has grown in the last decade, scholars and attorneys have collaborated to defend the rights of immigrant women, children, and LGBTQ+ persons who are threatened by gender-based, sexual, and gang violence in their home countries. Researchers in anthropology, history, political science, and sociology have regularly supported the work of immigration lawyers and contributed to public debates on immigration reform, but the academy contains untapped scholarly expertise that, guided by the resources provided in this handbook, can aid asylum seekers and refugees and promote the fair adjudication of asylum claims in US courts."

Focus on Afghan women:

Afghanistan Crisis update: Women and Girls in Displacement, Factsheet III (UNHCR & UN Women, May 2023) [text via ReliefWeb]

Refugee status for all female Afghan asylum seekers (European Parliament, May 2023) [text]

The Taliban’s war on women: The crime against humanity of gender persecution in Afghanistan (Amnesty International & ICJ, May 2023) [text]

UNHCR Statement on the concept of persecution on cumulative grounds in light of the current situation for women and girls in Afghanistan (UNHCR, May 2023) [text]

- "Issued in the context of the preliminary ruling reference to the Court of Justice of the European Union in the cases of AH and FN v. Bundesamt für Fremdenwesen und Asyl (C-608/22 and C-609/22)."

Other reports & blog posts:  

Girls on the Move in North Africa (Save the Children & Samuel Hall, May 2023) [text]

Marriage as a Durable Solution? How Syrian Refugee Women Use Marriage for Self-resettlement (Rice Univ., March 2023) [text]

Some refugee girls are forced into early marriage for safety – here’s why (The Conversation, May 2023) [text]

Women on the move: Trafficking, sex work and reproductive health among West African migrant women (Danish Inst. for International Studies, May 2022) [text]

- See also related webinar recording in the multimedia section.

Related posts:

- Thematic Focus: Gender-related Issues - Pt. 1 (19 May 2023)

- Thematic Focus: Gender-related Issues - Pt. 2 (19 May 2023)