Private Violence: Latin American Women and the Struggle for Asylum

Private Violence: Latin American Women and the Struggle for Asylum by Carol Cleaveland, GSSWSR ’02, coauthored with fellow social scientist Michele Waslin, is the result of interviews with more than 40 women from Mexico and South America seeking asylum in the United States. It offers a rarely seen look at the reasons women flee their homeland and how the asylum system fails to protect women who fear for their lives at the hands of violent partners or gangs, making a case for a change to the system. (NYU Press, 2024)