The New INS Guidelines on Gender Persecution: Their Effect on Asylum in the United States for Women Fleeing the Forced Sterilization and Abortion Policies of the People's Republic of China

This article reviews the United States Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) Guidelines on claims for asylum in the US due to gender-persecution and focuses especially on claims arising from population policies in China. The article discusses the UN definition of refugee and examines the impact which Canadian guidelines on gender-persecution claims have had upon those claiming asylum from China. The remainder of the article focuses on the impact within the US of these changes in policies and concludes that although there could be a positive effect for Chinese refugees, there could also be conflict with existing immigration law. [Descriptors: Migration - Refugees and Immigration, International]