Private Violence - Latin American Women and the Struggle for Asylum

"Private Violence: Latin American Women and the Struggle for Asylum engages women's stories to examine how gender-based violence compels asylum claims. Using women's narratives and ethnographic observation, this book explores how women negotiated barriers posed by both the immigration detention and judicial systems in their efforts to avoid removal from the United States and to win asylum"--

About the author

Carol Cleaveland (Author)

Carol Cleaveland is Associate Professor of Social Work at George Mason University.

Michele Waslin (Author)

Michele Waslin is Assistant Director of the Immigration History Research Center at the University of Minnesota.

Product details

• Authors: Carol Cleaveland, Carol/ Waslin Cleaveland, Michele Waslin
• Publisher: New York University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.10.2024
• EAN: 9781479824328
• ISBN: 978-1-4798-2432-8
• No. of pages: 296
• Series: Latina/O Sociology
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories