(In)credible Violence
An Analysis of Post-Alvarado Domestic Violence Asylum Cases in the United States
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6409643 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Cheryl Llewellyn (0000-0001-6788-4478, University of Massachusetts Lowell, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 41 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 170-193 |
| Publication date | 2020-04-02 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Women & Politics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0195-7732 • E-ISSN: 1540-9473 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/1554477x.2019.1674023 |
| OpenAlex | W2986398569 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 18 |
Every year, women from around the world apply for asylum in the United States to escape an abusive partner. In this article I find that domestic violence applicants may not be interpreted as viable truth tellers since they are missing specific markers of credibility, including legitimacy of fear, coherence and corroboration, and proof of no culpability. I link these questions of credibility to broader US discourses about gender-based violence and racialized conceptions of victimhood, which show a preference for credentialed knowledge over women's experiences and employ assumptions about autonomous, linear decision-making. I argue that the deployment of these discourses represents a tactic of exclusion, likely motivated by fears of immigration. Asylum adjudication practices (including credibility determinations) must address these issues in order to secure the health and well-being of women fleeing abusive partners in their countries of origin
Criminology · Domestic violence · Medical emergency · Poison control · Political science · Suicide prevention · Gender, Security, and Conflict · Intimate Partner and Family Violence · Law · Medicine · Migration, Health and Trauma · Psychology
Social Death
Fertile Matters
In an Abusive State
Feminist Legal Methods
Entry Denied
Feminist legal archeology, domestic violence and the raced-gendered juridical boundaries of U.S. asylum law
Gendered Asylum
Who Is Worthy of Protection
The Latino Threat
Looking White People in the Eye
Protectors and Victims in the Gender Regime of Asylum
Citizenship and the Performance of Credibility
A Short History of Gender Asylum in the United States
Containing Kassindja
Domestic Violence Asylum Claims and Recent Developments in International Human Rights Law
Critical Evidence
The Truth from the Body
| Unique citing works | 3 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,75 |
| Citation span | 2022 - 2025 (4) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |