Women Seeking Political Asylum

Negotiating Authority, Gender and a Lost Home

Bibliographic Data

ID11658711
AuthorsDiya Kallivayalil (0000-0002-3733-4157, Harvard University, corresponding author)
Year2013
Volume36
Issue3-4
Pages319-331
Publication date2013-06-27
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueWomen & Therapy (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0270-3149 • E-ISSN: 1541-0315
PublisherTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/02703149.2013.797845
OpenAlexW2080291895
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited16

This article examines the multiple intersecting challenges faced by women who are survivors of politically motivated violence and are seeking political asylum in the United States. These women have a particular vulnerability to authority, face the forced telling (and unwanted revisiting) of a trauma narrative, have an ambivalent relationship with notions of home and homeland, face numerous gender related challenges, and struggle with significant post-traumatic sequelae. This paper addresses these dynamic issues and contrasts the experience of these women with that of so-called voluntary immigrants. These and other issues are explored with brief case examples, with clinical recommendations for working with this population

Ambivalence · Citizenship · Computer security · Criminology · Face (sociological concept · Homeland · Immigration · Narrative · Negotiation · Political science · Political violence · Politics · Population · Social science · Sociology · Vulnerability (computing · Gender Studies · Homelessness and Social Issues · Law · Migration, Health and Trauma · Migration, Refugees, and Integration · Psychology · Social Psychology