“Gender-based Violence, Migration, and Justice: Indigenous Women’s Search for Safety and Justice from Guatemala to Oregon”
In Guatemala, a woman is killed every twelve hours. Since 2008, women seeking justice and safety have two paths to travel. The first is through Guatemala’s new specialized court system, the first such system in the world to deal exclusively with cases of violence against women. The second is to flee their country and seek gender-based asylum in the United States, drawing on recent judicial precedents. By comparing advances and obstacles in women’s search for safety and justice across borders, this project addresses critical questions about who is worthy of protection and how to make justice systems more just.