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...child who hurts himself and a man who hurt others. Together, they are forcing the Immigration and Naturalization Service to re-examine the rights of the mentally disabled. Farah Choudhry is appealing for asylum on her son's behalf, claiming that his autism is so misunderstood that he will be persecuted if he returns to Pakistan. De Santiago is asking not to be deported, contending, through his lawyer, that the abuses at Mexico's mental institutions are tantamount to persecution...
Under the Immigration and Nationality Act, a refugee is entitled to asylum if he or she faces "persecution or a well-founded fear of persecution on account of race, religion, nationality, membership in a particular social group, or political opinion." The legal standard is essentially the same for refugees like De Santiago seeking permission to stay, or what is officially known as the "withholding of removal." In recent years, the definition of a social group has stretched to encompass gender (women facing genital mutilation in Togo) and sexual orientation (gay men in Mexico). For the first time, the disabled...
Bound at the play's inception in an asylum's "tranquilizing chair," Mary Girard struggles with only more confinement: even after she is freed from the chair, she must confront not only the stigma of being labeled insane but also the ways in which her gender precludes her from acting for herself. Lanie Robertson's short play considers the fluid nature of sanity and sovereignty as it follows Mary and her attendant group of "Furies," who are either inmates of the asylum, creations of Mary's mind or both. Director Mimi Asnes '02, a Women's Studies concentrator, cites Foucault...
...Shorten their country names to Gyz and Beki b) Unite to combat a threat from Islamic militants c) Offer asylum to Steve and Eydie, but not Siegfried and Roy d) Disagree...
...last year's bombings they don't exactly wield much influence in Belgrade. Their best bet for diplomatic leverage remains Moscow, which played the key role in persuading the Serb strongman to back down in Kosovo. Diplomatic efforts are reportedly afoot to coax Milosevic into leaving Serbia and seeking asylum either in Russia or Belarus to avoid prosecution in the Hague. But that may be overstating his immediate crisis - after all, Kostunica has stated that he's not interested in sending Milosevic for trial as a war criminal (a demand that has little resonance in Serbia), and even if Milosevic...