Desperately seeking asylum : testimonies of trauma, courage, and love
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Desperately seeking asylum : testimonies of trauma, courage, and love
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The work Desperately seeking asylum : testimonies of trauma, courage, and love represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Bowdoin College Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.
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- Desperately seeking asylum : testimonies of trauma, courage, and love
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- testimonies of trauma, courage, and love
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- Helen T. Boursier
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- Emigration and immigration -- Government policy
- Mexican-American Border Region -- Anecdotes
- Mexican-American Border Region -- Anecdotes
- Refugees -- Abuse of
- Refugees -- Abuse of -- United States -- Anecdotes
- Refugees -- Abuse of -- United States -- Anecdotes
- Refugees -- Central America -- Social conditions -- Anecdotes
- Refugees -- Central America -- Social conditions -- Anecdotes
- Refugees -- Legal status, laws, etc
- Anecdotes
- Refugees -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- United States
- Refugees -- Social conditions
- Refugees -- United States -- Social conditions -- Anecdotes
- Refugees -- United States -- Social conditions -- Anecdotes
- United States
- United States -- Emigration and immigration | Government policy
- United States -- Emigration and immigration | Government policy
- Refugees -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- United States
- Anecdotes
- Anecdotes
- Central America
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- "Desperately Seeking Asylum prioritizes the testimonies of refugee families and unaccompanied children who are seeking asylum in the U.S. from Central America, primarily Guatemala, El Salvador, and Honduras. Their desperate and heart-wrenching stories disclose why they fled their homelands, their experiences along the treacherous overland journey, and the harsh reality of how the U.S. treats these families and children upon arrival to the U.S. It critiques U.S. complicity to the violence they are fleeing and discloses how national leadership shapes U.S. Immigration policies and practices, including the blatant documented violations against asylum seekers at the U.S.-Mexico border. Most notably, it offers transparency on U.S. Immigration practices at the U.S.-Mexico border which violate existing U.S. and international laws that are intended to protect asylum seekers, including the current official practice of blocking bridges with 'turnbacks' to prevent 'inadmissibles' from applying for asylum in the U.S. It explains protections mandated by U.S. law for unaccompanied children who are in U.S. custody, and discloses violations which keep these children detained excessive lengths of time in substandard for-profit facilities which are overseen by the government and funded by taxpayers. Boursier also deconstructs the complicated asylum process, including examining the credible fear for asylum procedure, showing how technical terms and language are used to justify injustice at the border"--
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- non fiction
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