Private Violence: A conversation about gender-based violence and asylum in the United States

When
November 18, 2024, 3:00 to 5:00 pm
Where
Andersen Library
Room 120

University of Minnesota
222 21st Ave South
Minneapolis, MN 55455

Event Flyer

Michele Waslin and Carol Cleaveland will discuss their new book, Private Violence: Latin American Women and the Struggle for Asylum. Through eyewitness accounts of closed-court proceedings and powerful testimony from women who have sought asylum in the United States because of severe assaults and death threats by intimate partners and/or gang members, Private Violence examines how immigration laws and policies shape the lives of Latin American women who seek safety in the United States. The authors describe the women’s histories prior to crossing the border, and the legal strategies they use to convince Immigration Judges that rape and other forms of “private violence” should merit asylum – despite laws built on Cold War era assumptions that persecution occurs in the public sphere by state actors.

Reception
Panel presentation followed by a reception
Books will be available for purchase
Parking Information
Who
Mackenzie Heinrichs '18

Immigration & Human Rights Clinical Fellow, Binger Center for New Americans, University of Minnesota Law School

University of Minnesota Law School
Dr. Carol Cleaveland

Professor of Social Work, George Mason University

George Mason University
Dr. Michele Waslin

Assistant Director, Immigration History Research Center

University of Minnesota
The Honorable Susan Conley de Castro '78

U. S. Immigration Judge, Retired

Contact
Sarah Brenes