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New Gender Asylum Resources

By immigrationprof

Lisa Frydman, Staff Attorney Center for Gender and Refugee Studies at UC Hastings, reports on two new resources on the Center’s website.

First, the Center recently updated the international gender asylum guidelines page, which summarizes the present treatment of gender in national and EU refugee law. http://cgrs.uchastings.edu/law/gender_guidelines.php.

Second, former student intern, Meghann Boyle’s, article, “Paths to Protection: Ideas, Resources, and Strategies for Presenting Central American Gang-related Asylum Claims,” published in the November issue of Immigration Briefings is also available at: http://cgrs.uchastings.edu/law/articles.php

Frydman also encourages folks to visit the Center’s website to learn more about what you can do to support the campaign to reverse In re A-T- and defend women’s rights. In re A-T, 24 I. & N. Dec. 296 (BIA 2007) is the BIA decision holding that female genital cutting (FGC) is a one time harm that cannot be repeated and that as a result, the presumption of a well-founed fear of persecution is overcome for women who have suffered past FGC.

KJ