Private Violence: A Conversation About Gender-Based Violence and Asylum in the United States
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Type: In Person
Issues: Asylum , Court Monitoring , Migrant Rights
Private Violence: Latin American Women and the Struggle for Asylum centers on the stories of forty-six Latin American women - a handful of the hundreds of thousands awaiting asylum hearings in the United States. The book provides a unique vantage point on asylum, Latin American immigration, and the exploitation of women in Central America and Mexico as it examines how women who suffered "private violence" - trauma at the hands of domestic partners and/or gang members - fought to stay in the United States.
Join authors Dr. Carol Cleaveland, George Mason University and Dr. Michele Waslin, Immigration History Research Center at the University of Minnesota, together with Michele Garnett McKenzie, Deputy Director of The Advocates for Human Rights, for a panel discussion and reception. This event is co-sponsored by the Immigration History Research Center and the Binger Center for New Americans at the University of Minnesota and The Advocates for Human Rights.
This event is free and open to the public.
Date: Tuesday, November 19
Time: 6-8pm
Location: Open Book, 1011 Washington Avenue South, Minneapolis, MN 55415
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Book Talk: Private Violence: Latin American Women and the Struggle for Asylum
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