Private Violence: Latin American Women and the Struggle for Asylum
Carol Cleaveland, Michele Waslin
"Private Violence: Latin American Women and the Struggle for Asylum engages women's stories to examine how gender-based violence compels asylum claims. Using women's narratives and ethnographic observation, this book explores how women negotiated barriers posed by both the immigration detention and judicial systems in their efforts to avoid removal from the United States and to win asylum"--
Award History
1 wins · 1 total
| Award | Year | Result | Category / Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| PROSE Award for Psychology | 2025 | Winner | Official source |
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01 Central figures
None extracted with sufficient confidence.
02 Central places
- the United States78%
03 Suggested argument
Gender-based violence drives asylum claims for Latin American women, and their narratives show how they negotiated barriers in U.S. immigration detention and judicial systems to avoid removal and win asylum.
Model confidence 74%
04 Reading orientation
72 / 100 academicAcademic
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Confidence percentages are the model's own estimates. Profile confidence: 42%.