Gendered Asylum : Race and Violence in U.S. Law and Politics /

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"In this project, Sara McKinnon examines the contingent and conditional position of gender in asylum cases and charts the implications of the emergence of gender as a political category in U.S. asylum law from the late 1980s to 2012 against the context of broader national and transnational poli...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: McKinnon, Sara L. (Sara Lynn), 1979- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Urbana, Chicago, and Springfield : University of Illinois Press, 2016.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Women's rights > Government policy.
Transgender people > Legal status, laws, etc.
Sex discrimination > Law and legislation.
Refugees > Legal status, laws, etc.
Refugees > Government policy.
Race relations.
Emigration and immigration > Government policy.
Asylum, Right of.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Political Freedom & Security > General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Emigration & Immigration.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Women's Studies.
Femmes > Droits > Politique gouvernementale > États-Unis.
Refugies > Politique gouvernementale > États-Unis.
Droit d'asile > États-Unis.
RACE RELATIONS.
Women's rights > Government policy > United States.
Transgender people > Legal status, laws, etc. > United States.
Sex discrimination > Law and legislation > United States.
Refugees > Government policy > United States.
Asylum, Right of > United States.
Refugees > Legal status, laws, etc. > United States.
United States.
États-Unis > Relations raciales.
United States > Emigration and immigration > Government policy.
United States > Race relations.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Transnational publicity, gender-based violence, and Central American Women's asylum cases
  • Fixing bodies fashioning subjects : constructing gender through rhetorics of freedom and choice
  • Standing in her shoes : U.S. asylum policy for Chinese opposing population control
  • The rhetoric and logic of one sex, one gender
  • The reading practices of immigration judges : intersectional invisibility and the segregation of gender and sexuality.

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