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Having been an United States Immigration Judge for eight and a half years, I am no stranger to violence against women. I vividly remember a day in August of 1989 spent observing as part of my training as a new judge. The scene was the Immigration Court in the de- tention facility at 201 Varrick Street in New York City.
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© 1999 Courtney W. Howland
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Nejelski, P. (1999). Gender-Based Asylum in the United States: A View from the Trenches. In: Howland, C.W. (eds) Religious Fundamentalisms and the Human Rights of Women. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230107380_22
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