Cross-Border Shopping For Ideas: A Critical Review of United States, Canadian and Australian Approaches to Gender-Related Asylum Claims

The author reviews guidelines established by Canada, the United States and Australia in assessing gender-related asylum claims. Part I focuses on whether these states adequately recognize women's fear of persecution. Part II discusses the international and domestic sources of inspiration for the guidelines. Part III examines the content of the directives. Part IV reviews the actual interpretation and application of the refugee definition in a gender context by taking up such issues as the meaning of persecution, the availability of state protection, and the definition of a particular social group. [Descriptors: Migration - Refugees and Immigration, International]