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Soft Immutability and Imputed Gay Identity : Recent Developments in Transgender and Sexual-Orientation-Based Asylum Law [PDF]
, 2005 This Article surveys the law of LGBT asylum as it has developed over the past fifteen years, first, with the landmark case of Matter of Toboso-Alfonso, which recognized homosexuality as a particular social group ; second, with the Ninth Circuit\u27s ...
Landau, Joseph
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Sustainable Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The dynamic nature of small islands being geographically isolated and their perceived connectedness with global networks complicates research attempts to draw general conclusions on whether insularity leads to marginalization or strengthens their resilience for sustainable development.
Toheeb Lekan Jolaosho +2 more
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Журнал Белорусского государственного университета: История, 2020 After the German campaign at the beginning of World War II (1939), Poland was divided between nazi Germany which occupied the west and center of the country, and the Soviet Union which occupying the Eastern regions.
Marianna Kmeťová, Marek Syrný
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The Emerging Importance of Social Visibility in Defining a Particular Social Group and Its Potential Impact on Asylum Claims Related to Sexual Orientation and Gender [PDF]
, 2008 An emerging issue in U.S. asylum claims based on membership in a particular social group is the relevance of social visibility in determining whether such a group exists.
Marouf, Fatma E.
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‘The very deceitfulness of devils’: Firmilian and the doubtful baptisms of a woman possessed by demons [PDF]
, 2016 In the mid-third century, a controversy relating to the validity of baptism by the lapsed broke out between Cyprian, bishop of Carthage, and Stephen, bishop of Rome.
Methuen, Charlotte
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Sustainable Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper examines the relationship between sustainability transitions and local development through the case of Colombia's medicinal cannabis industry. It highlights how neglecting place‐specific needs and development expectations can hinder equitable transitions and reinforce existing socio‐economic disparities.
Diana Morales, Mónica Ramos‐Mejía
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To flee or not to flee: Responses to persecution and the issue of relocation
Missionalia: Southern African Journal of Missiology, 2013 Religious persecution of believers contributes to migration and relocation. Three alternative responses to persecution or the threat of persecution can be discerned in Scripture: Avoiding, resisting, and enduring for those affected, and mandatory ...
Sauer, Christof
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TESOL Quarterly, EarlyView.Abstract This article explores the language experiences of refugees and asylum seekers who survived sex trafficking, domestic slavery, and sexuality‐based persecution. Drawing on a longitudinal study of 15 respondents followed across two time points separated by 6 years, all members of an England‐based therapeutic community, we focus here on four ...
Sally Rachel Cook, Jean Marc Dewaele
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Christian Apologists and the Antonine Emperors
Arys. Antigüedad, Religiones y Sociedades, 2019 The Antonine period from Hadrian onwards sees the beginning of a Christian literature of “apology,” more precisely of defense and justification of the new religion. These defenses sometimes take the form of attacks on “pagan” cults or on Judaism.
Christopher P. Jones
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