This is the first comprehensive socio-legal study of the interrelation between gender and the law of refugee status. In the past decade, the issue has received

Questions of gender have strongly influenced the development of international refugee law over the last few decades. This volume assesses the progress toward ap

Providing nuanced accounts of how the social identities of men and women, the context of displacement and the experience or manifestation of violence interact,

At the turn of the new millenium, war, political oppression, desperate poverty, environmental degradation and disasters, and economic underdevelopment are sharp

Women filing gender-based asylum claims long faced skepticism and outright rejection within the United States immigration system. Despite erratic progress, the