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However, this is nothing compared to the exaggerated emotion which follows. Collard shows Laura in the mids of a psychological obsession. She calls Jean 24 hours a day, leaving insane message of death, terror and suicide. Finally, Laura is carted off to the insane asylum...
...West Coast, a federal immigration judge dropped deportation proceedings against a Nigerian woman illegally in the U.S. in order to spare her two small daughters from an African ritual of genital mutilation. The judge called the procedure "cruel, painful and dangerous." And immigration officials granted asylum to a gay man from Mexico based on his claim of persecution back home for his sexual orientation...
...Asylum from a Culture of Pain...
Advocates for women in the U.S. want the Oluloro affair to be a test case. "Claims based on gender oppression have not been recognized as a basis for asylum," says Nancy Kelly, directing attorney of the Women's Refugee Project, a joint program of Harvard Law School and Cambridge and Somerville (Massachusetts) Legal Services. "Harm that is done to women is seen as a personal, private or cultural matter. Genital mutilation has not been seen as a type of harm." The feminist mainstream has been particularly galvanized by the highly personalized documentary film and book on female-genital mutilation, Warrior...
...State Department, while attempting to appear sensitive, may not want a new precedent set or a new category of "cultural asylum" established. In an ambivalently worded telegram to the presiding judge in Portland, the State Department declared that its latest reports indicate that female circumcision is practiced in more than half of Nigeria; still, it said, while the girls might be cut, "that is not an inevitable consequence." The telegram added that if Oluloro was deported, she did not have to live where mutilation remains the custom...