New Book: Challenges for the Future of Access to Justice

A new book available here examines challenges to access to justice in the international context. Here is a description of the project:

This project raises one of the most prevalent problems facing the internationalization of access to justice in the continent today: the challenge of facilitating an international debate without the dominance of the English language. Although there exists a diverse global community of scholars dedicated to this subject, people dealing with access to justice in everyday life are primarily local and, when attempting to meet the needs of vulnerable persons in their community, their methods are usually framed by local legal approaches and contexts, being mainly dependent on national languages. Promoting a continental conversation thus proves challenging.

Several chapters touch on themes of interest to the ImmigrationProf community. Chapter six by Fedora Mathieu examines “Persecution Grounds as a Restricting Tool of the Right to Asylum in Canada: The Example of Haitian Women Who Fear Gendered Violence.” Chapter seven by Gloria Song and Melisa Handi is titled “Beyond Cookie Cutter Templates to Women’s Lived Experiences: Domestic Violence-based Refugee Claims from Guyana.”

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