Private Violence: Latin American Women and the Struggle for Asylum

by Carol Cleaveland and Michele Waslin

How the US asylum process fails to protect against claims of gender-based violence

Through eyewitness accounts of closed-court proceedings and powerful testimony from women who have sought asylum in the United States because of severe assaults and death threats by intimate partners and/or gang members, Private Violence examines how immigration laws and policies shape the lives of Latin American women who seek safety in the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1479824321
• ISBN13: 9781479824328
• Release Date: October 2024
• Publisher: New York University Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.24 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"