This article compares the ways in which
forced marriage is perceived as
persecution under the domestic asylum laws
of in the United Kingdom, Spain, and
France. The article argues that forced
marriage should be uniformly recognized as
persecution in asylum law, and that the
lack of such systematic recognition across
UK, Spain and France leads to arbitrary
and inconsistent adjudication of asylum
claims by forced marriage victims, despite
attempts to make such laws uniform through
the Common European Asylum System (CEAS).
The article ultimately advocates for the