Intimate violence as grounds for asylum in Spain and the politics of silence
This paper analyses the barriers to the recognition of gender-based persecution as grounds for asylum. It focuses on Spain and examines the rulings of Spanish courts on applications based on various types of gender violence between 2009 and 2019 and looks at the theoretical propositions of "the...
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Barcelona Centre for International Affairs (CIDOB)
2023-04-01
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| description | This paper analyses the barriers to the recognition of gender-based persecution as grounds for asylum. It focuses on Spain and examines the rulings of Spanish courts on applications based on various types of gender violence between 2009 and 2019 and looks at the theoretical propositions of "the politics of silence". The paper proposes that these barriers can be attributed to the interweaving of androcentric and colonial frameworks that produce arbitrary representations of non-European women and their cultures. It also highlights the paradoxical way authorities deploy culturalisation strategies around female genital mutilation and forced marriage, treating them as "exotic" violence, in contrast to the strategies of invisibilisation and silence used with other types of gender-based violence, such as "intimate violence". |
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| spelling | doaj.art-da2f544f406e4fac8332014d49e124d42023-05-09T11:27:18ZspaBarcelona Centre for International Affairs (CIDOB)Revista CIDOB d'Afers Internacionals1133-65952013-035X2023-04-0113316118110.24241/rcai.2023.133.1.161Intimate violence as grounds for asylum in Spain and the politics of silenceDiana P. Garcés-Amaya0https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6559-0783Investigadora, Instituto Pensar, Pontificia Universidad Javeriana (Bogotá)This paper analyses the barriers to the recognition of gender-based persecution as grounds for asylum. It focuses on Spain and examines the rulings of Spanish courts on applications based on various types of gender violence between 2009 and 2019 and looks at the theoretical propositions of "the politics of silence". The paper proposes that these barriers can be attributed to the interweaving of androcentric and colonial frameworks that produce arbitrary representations of non-European women and their cultures. It also highlights the paradoxical way authorities deploy culturalisation strategies around female genital mutilation and forced marriage, treating them as "exotic" violence, in contrast to the strategies of invisibilisation and silence used with other types of gender-based violence, such as "intimate violence".https://raco.cat/index.php/RevistaCIDOB/article/view/414301gender persecutionintimate violenceasylum procedureandrocentrismcolonialityspaincourts |
| spellingShingle | Diana P. Garcés-Amaya Intimate violence as grounds for asylum in Spain and the politics of silence Revista CIDOB d'Afers Internacionals gender persecution intimate violence asylum procedure androcentrism coloniality spain courts |
| title | Intimate violence as grounds for asylum in Spain and the politics of silence |
| title_full | Intimate violence as grounds for asylum in Spain and the politics of silence |
| title_fullStr | Intimate violence as grounds for asylum in Spain and the politics of silence |
| title_full_unstemmed | Intimate violence as grounds for asylum in Spain and the politics of silence |
| title_short | Intimate violence as grounds for asylum in Spain and the politics of silence |
| title_sort | intimate violence as grounds for asylum in spain and the politics of silence |
| topic | gender persecution intimate violence asylum procedure androcentrism coloniality spain courts |
| url | https://raco.cat/index.php/RevistaCIDOB/article/view/414301 |
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