Central American Women Experience More Trauma After Seeking Asylum
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A Central American migrant woman who has trekked for a month across Central America and Mexico in the hopes of reaching the United States with a caravan, holds a baby at a temporary shelter in Tijuana, Baja California State, Mexico, near the border with the U.S., on November 28, 2018.PEDRO PARDO / AFP / GETTY IMAGES
BY: Laurie C. Heffron,
The number of Central American women who make difficult, often harrowing, journeys to the United States to flee domestic and gang violence is rising.
I’m a social science researcher and a social worker who has interviewed hundreds of women after they were detained by immigration authorities for my research about the relationship between violence against women and migration. I find that most female asylum seekers experience ...