Cynthia S Gorman
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 1448495 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Cynthia S Gorman |
| NOMBRES | Cynthia S |
| APELLIDO | Gorman |
| FIRMA | GORMAN C S |
| AFILIACIONES | West Virginia University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9480-9000 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 11 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 82 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 11 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2015 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
Shifting Responsibilities
In the United States, rural areas are growing as new immigrant destinations (NIDs) where refugees and other precarious migrant families settle to work within agro-industries such as poultry processing. Often lacking resources and infrastructure geared toward refugee-migrants, we argue rural NIDs place greater demands, socially and economically, on youth in these families. Focusing on refugee-migrant youth aged 18–25 years, we explore the “life-wo…
Geographies of 'lawfare' and the disappearing pathways to US asylum
Political asylum is central to the Trump administration's depiction of the United States as a nation under siege and features prominently in the promised offensive against the immigration system. Using the concept of 'lawfare', this paper explores specific, less visible tactics the Trump administration will likely use to 'legally' circumscribe the scope of asylum, including (1) using the Attorney General's ability to act retroactively and overtur…
All my friends here are ghosts
In recent years, feminist legal geographers have pressed for deeper engagement with the lived experience of law's spatial logics including methodologies that extend beyond the study of legal discourse, practice, and enforcement to include ethnographic and other qualitative approaches that centre the experiences of those living with legal precarity. Building upon the work of feminist political geographers concerned with intimacy geopolitics, the c…
After the raid
Over the past two decades United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) have engaged in a series of workplace raids in small rural towns home to meat processing plants. Targeted enforcement operations such as workplace raids are indicative of a shifting spatiality of bordering practices as immigrant policing moves from the territorial borderline into the ‘everyday’ spaces where migrants and non-migrants live and work. Drawing upon a fem…
Defined by the Flood
Alarmism has enabled the extension and reconfiguration of sovereign power at thresholds of human mobility in ways that exemplify the shifting and polymorphic nature of borders. Extending critical geopolitical scholarship on alarmism and the geographies of bordering, this paper examines how alarmism is used to exert control over legal-discursive thresholds that people must cross to gain political asylum in the US. By analysing the most ambiguous a…
Invasion and colonization
Amidst a rise in hate crimes, hate group organizing, and anti-Muslim and anti-refugee policy making in the United States, this paper examines efforts by a national hate group to organize opposition to the resettlement of Syrian Muslim refugees in West Virginia, a non-traditional refugee destination. Through analysis of materials disseminated at a public seminar titled the “Invasion and Colonization of West Virginia,” we identify four unique socia…
Feminist legal archeology, domestic violence and the raced-gendered juridical boundaries of U.S. asylum law
In 1996, a Guatemalan woman named Rody Alvarado was granted asylum in the United States but the decision was revoked three years later, triggering a controversy over border control, domestic violence and the standards of refugee protection. Through an intersectional, geographical and historical excavation of Alvarado’s case, I illustrate how adjudicators justified revoking asylum by initially framing her as a victim of unfortunate domestic abuse …
Contemporary Refugee‐Border Dynamics and the Legacies of the 1919 Paris Peace Conference ⋆
While the geopolitical legacies of the World War I peace negotiations are widely recognized, this article examines the often overlooked connection between the WWI Paris Peace Conference's spatial and geopolitical logics and contemporary refugee‐border dynamics. We argue that the spatial and geopolitical logics that framed the WWI Paris Peace Conference—the creation of new states, the propagation of the Western ideal of bounded sovereign states, t…
Singled Out
Through legal interpretation of immigration categories, such as the refugee definition, signatories to the UN Refugee Convention restrict access to political asylum. This paper examines how scalar logics are used in legal interpretation to filter out particular people from national space and control the number legally entitled to enter and remain in the U.S. Scalar logics shape access by requiring asylum seekers to prove they have been ‘singled o…
Redefining refugees
Containing Kassindja
In 1996, the USA issued a landmark decision to grant political asylum to a young woman, Fauziya Kassindja, due to the threat of forced genital circumcision. The case, Matter of Kasinga, is now a cornerstone in the area of law known as ‘gender-based asylum.’ While the legal victory occurred during a watershed moment for women’s human rights, it also spawned considerable critique for reproducing colonial tropes of third-world women, cultural backwa…
Redefining refugees
Containing Kassindja
In 1996, the USA issued a landmark decision to grant political asylum to a young woman, Fauziya Kassindja, due to the threat of forced genital circumcision. The case, Matter of Kasinga, is now a cornerstone in the area of law known as ‘gender-based asylum.’ While the legal victory occurred during a watershed moment for women’s human rights, it also spawned considerable critique for reproducing colonial tropes of third-world women, cultural backwa…
Defined by the Flood
Alarmism has enabled the extension and reconfiguration of sovereign power at thresholds of human mobility in ways that exemplify the shifting and polymorphic nature of borders. Extending critical geopolitical scholarship on alarmism and the geographies of bordering, this paper examines how alarmism is used to exert control over legal-discursive thresholds that people must cross to gain political asylum in the US. By analysing the most ambiguous a…
Singled Out
Through legal interpretation of immigration categories, such as the refugee definition, signatories to the UN Refugee Convention restrict access to political asylum. This paper examines how scalar logics are used in legal interpretation to filter out particular people from national space and control the number legally entitled to enter and remain in the U.S. Scalar logics shape access by requiring asylum seekers to prove they have been ‘singled o…
Invasion and colonization
Amidst a rise in hate crimes, hate group organizing, and anti-Muslim and anti-refugee policy making in the United States, this paper examines efforts by a national hate group to organize opposition to the resettlement of Syrian Muslim refugees in West Virginia, a non-traditional refugee destination. Through analysis of materials disseminated at a public seminar titled the “Invasion and Colonization of West Virginia,” we identify four unique socia…
Contemporary Refugee‐Border Dynamics and the Legacies of the 1919 Paris Peace Conference ⋆
While the geopolitical legacies of the World War I peace negotiations are widely recognized, this article examines the often overlooked connection between the WWI Paris Peace Conference's spatial and geopolitical logics and contemporary refugee‐border dynamics. We argue that the spatial and geopolitical logics that framed the WWI Paris Peace Conference—the creation of new states, the propagation of the Western ideal of bounded sovereign states, t…
After the raid
Over the past two decades United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) have engaged in a series of workplace raids in small rural towns home to meat processing plants. Targeted enforcement operations such as workplace raids are indicative of a shifting spatiality of bordering practices as immigrant policing moves from the territorial borderline into the ‘everyday’ spaces where migrants and non-migrants live and work. Drawing upon a fem…
Geographies of 'lawfare' and the disappearing pathways to US asylum
Political asylum is central to the Trump administration's depiction of the United States as a nation under siege and features prominently in the promised offensive against the immigration system. Using the concept of 'lawfare', this paper explores specific, less visible tactics the Trump administration will likely use to 'legally' circumscribe the scope of asylum, including (1) using the Attorney General's ability to act retroactively and overtur…
All my friends here are ghosts
In recent years, feminist legal geographers have pressed for deeper engagement with the lived experience of law's spatial logics including methodologies that extend beyond the study of legal discourse, practice, and enforcement to include ethnographic and other qualitative approaches that centre the experiences of those living with legal precarity. Building upon the work of feminist political geographers concerned with intimacy geopolitics, the c…
Containing Kassindja
In 1996, the USA issued a landmark decision to grant political asylum to a young woman, Fauziya Kassindja, due to the threat of forced genital circumcision. The case, Matter of Kasinga, is now a cornerstone in the area of law known as ‘gender-based asylum.’ While the legal victory occurred during a watershed moment for women’s human rights, it also spawned considerable critique for reproducing colonial tropes of third-world women, cultural backwa…
Redefining refugees
Singled Out
Through legal interpretation of immigration categories, such as the refugee definition, signatories to the UN Refugee Convention restrict access to political asylum. This paper examines how scalar logics are used in legal interpretation to filter out particular people from national space and control the number legally entitled to enter and remain in the U.S. Scalar logics shape access by requiring asylum seekers to prove they have been ‘singled o…
Feminist legal archeology, domestic violence and the raced-gendered juridical boundaries of U.S. asylum law
In 1996, a Guatemalan woman named Rody Alvarado was granted asylum in the United States but the decision was revoked three years later, triggering a controversy over border control, domestic violence and the standards of refugee protection. Through an intersectional, geographical and historical excavation of Alvarado’s case, I illustrate how adjudicators justified revoking asylum by initially framing her as a victim of unfortunate domestic abuse …
Contemporary Refugee‐Border Dynamics and the Legacies of the 1919 Paris Peace Conference ⋆
While the geopolitical legacies of the World War I peace negotiations are widely recognized, this article examines the often overlooked connection between the WWI Paris Peace Conference's spatial and geopolitical logics and contemporary refugee‐border dynamics. We argue that the spatial and geopolitical logics that framed the WWI Paris Peace Conference—the creation of new states, the propagation of the Western ideal of bounded sovereign states, t…
Invasion and colonization
Amidst a rise in hate crimes, hate group organizing, and anti-Muslim and anti-refugee policy making in the United States, this paper examines efforts by a national hate group to organize opposition to the resettlement of Syrian Muslim refugees in West Virginia, a non-traditional refugee destination. Through analysis of materials disseminated at a public seminar titled the “Invasion and Colonization of West Virginia,” we identify four unique socia…
After the raid
Over the past two decades United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) have engaged in a series of workplace raids in small rural towns home to meat processing plants. Targeted enforcement operations such as workplace raids are indicative of a shifting spatiality of bordering practices as immigrant policing moves from the territorial borderline into the ‘everyday’ spaces where migrants and non-migrants live and work. Drawing upon a fem…
Defined by the Flood
Alarmism has enabled the extension and reconfiguration of sovereign power at thresholds of human mobility in ways that exemplify the shifting and polymorphic nature of borders. Extending critical geopolitical scholarship on alarmism and the geographies of bordering, this paper examines how alarmism is used to exert control over legal-discursive thresholds that people must cross to gain political asylum in the US. By analysing the most ambiguous a…
Shifting Responsibilities
In the United States, rural areas are growing as new immigrant destinations (NIDs) where refugees and other precarious migrant families settle to work within agro-industries such as poultry processing. Often lacking resources and infrastructure geared toward refugee-migrants, we argue rural NIDs place greater demands, socially and economically, on youth in these families. Focusing on refugee-migrant youth aged 18–25 years, we explore the “life-wo…
Geographies of 'lawfare' and the disappearing pathways to US asylum
Political asylum is central to the Trump administration's depiction of the United States as a nation under siege and features prominently in the promised offensive against the immigration system. Using the concept of 'lawfare', this paper explores specific, less visible tactics the Trump administration will likely use to 'legally' circumscribe the scope of asylum, including (1) using the Attorney General's ability to act retroactively and overtur…
All my friends here are ghosts
In recent years, feminist legal geographers have pressed for deeper engagement with the lived experience of law's spatial logics including methodologies that extend beyond the study of legal discourse, practice, and enforcement to include ethnographic and other qualitative approaches that centre the experiences of those living with legal precarity. Building upon the work of feminist political geographers concerned with intimacy geopolitics, the c…
Migration, Refugees, and Integration (11 obras) · Political science (10 obras) · Law (9 obras) · Sociology (9 obras) · Criminology (7 obras) · Refugee (7 obras) · Law (6 obras) · Politics (6 obras) · Immigration (5 obras) · Migration and Labor Dynamics (5 obras)