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Accounting For Gender In International Refugee Law: A Close Reading Of The Unhcr Gender Guidelines And The Discursive Construction Of Gender As An Identity, Johanna N. Tvedt
Accounting For Gender In International Refugee Law: A Close Reading Of The Unhcr Gender Guidelines And The Discursive Construction Of Gender As An Identity, Johanna N. Tvedt
Master's Theses
This thesis conducts a close reading of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees’ “Guidelines on International Protection: Gender-Related Persecution within the context of Article 1A(2) of the 1951 Convention and/or its 1967 Protocol relating to the Status of Refugees” – a document that explains how legal definitions of refugee status might take into account gender issues. In it, I investigate the relationship between gender identity and the refugee status to understand how gender is constructed in relation to other terms or identity categories that determine whether an individual will be granted asylum. Performing a close reading of this text, …
Has Public Administration Grown Up? A Case For Sexual Orientation/Gender Identity And The Intersection Of Public Administration In The 21st Century, Espiridion A. Borrego, Richard Greggory Johnson
Has Public Administration Grown Up? A Case For Sexual Orientation/Gender Identity And The Intersection Of Public Administration In The 21st Century, Espiridion A. Borrego, Richard Greggory Johnson
Public and Nonprofit Administration
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The Importance Of Social Movements And The Intersection Of Social Equity: Marriage Equality And Racing Towards Justice, Richard Greggory Johnson
The Importance Of Social Movements And The Intersection Of Social Equity: Marriage Equality And Racing Towards Justice, Richard Greggory Johnson
Public and Nonprofit Administration
The social movements of the 1960’s and 1970’s have had an irreversible positive impact on the wellbeing of all citizens in the 21st century United States. It can also be argued that social equity as a subfield of public administration and policy grew out of the 1960’s though there is no definite way of knowing what the framers of the subfield were thinking or how they were influenced by the social movements of the time. Still, it is a reasonable assumption to believe that the framers were at least marginally influenced by the changing times. Therefore, social equity is used …