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.