Sidebar: Drawing a Line Between Enduring Harm and Legitimate Fear
Adam Liptak, in yesterday’s Drawing a Line Between Enduring Harm and Legitimate Fear, tracks a case in which a woman who has:
- been genitally mutilated;
- been promised - without her consent - to marry a man who is also her first cousin
- the Board of Immigration Appeals has rejected her application for asylum - while expressing, or conceding, that she’s going back into a very bad situation.
My recollection is that - as of late - even sexual acts more or less consented to - the case that Kurt Eichenwald was covering, the calls for more done about “human trafficking,” - isn’t this case exactly that - sexual slavery, enforced by violence.
Maybe we’ve got enough female refugees, especially those who, because of the mutilation, aren’t so useful in construction a “damsel in distress” narrative. This requires, I think, more thought (on my part) - I’m disturbed and offended but need to re-examine my reasoning.
