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Sto caricando le informazioni... Do They Hear You When You Cry (1998)di Fauziya Kassindja, Layli Miller Bashir (Collaboratore)
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. I was so ashamed of the U.S. reading this book! This is such a personal and vivid account of what Fauziya went through in order to live freely. I was inspired and awed by her strength as well as the strength of those who worked in the legal system on her behalf. I'll never forget this book. I highly recommend. ( ) In Wie hoort mijn tranen vertelt Fauziya Kassindja uit Togo haar verhaal. Toen ze 17 was werd ze gedwongen te trouwen had, en moest ze alsnog besneden worden. Om aan dit vernederende en zeer pijnlijke ritueel te ontkomen ontvluchtte Fauziya haar vaderland. Ze wist Amerika te bereiken. Daar werd ze onder slechte omstandigheden 16 maanden opgesloten in afwachting van een beslissing over haar asielaanvraag. De juriste Layli Miller Bashir trok zich Fauziya's lot aan en na een lange gerachtelijke procedure behaalde ze een dubbele overwinning: Fauziya kreeg asiel en het besnijden van vrouwen tegen hun wil is voortaan in Amerika reden tot asielverlening. Born into a happy middle class family in Togo, the author's life suddenly undergoes a horrific change when her beloved father suddenly dies. His siblings - hostile to his wife- seize the property, evict her, and arrange for the teenage author to be removed from school and become fourth wife to a much older man...and undergo FGM first. But her escape to Germany, and later the US brings a lengthy spell i grim American detention centres and jails until human rights workers can get the ruling against her overturned. There are a number of autobiographies on this theme, and I found this more readable and engrossing than some others. It certainly gives a depressing slant on the whole topic of how immigrants are treated. I did find it (at almost 700 pages) a tad long. This book made me really interested in the process of claiming asylum. I've never thought much about asylum, but reading a personal account of someone suffering through the process really made me more interested in learning more about those seeking asylum. i went through a phase of reading a lot of books written by and about people in prison, all of which have been depressing to read, but her story added a whole new dimension. she had to suffer all of horrible things that happen in prison without even having a complete understanding of united states culture. i hope that everything she suffered through really did help other women who are claiming asylum for gender based persecution True story told by Fauziya Kassindja of her life growing up in Togo Africa in a loving, wealthy family with a father who adored her, a loving mother and many sisters and 2 brothers. She tell us about what her life is like as a child, and a muslim and a cherished child. When her father dies the family's future is turned over to her father's brother and we see the darker side of tribal customs mainly, arranged marriages. Fauziya is to be married to a much older man who already has 3 wives. She also will be circumcised in what is know as Female Genital mutilation. With her sister's help she escapes and is one a plane to Germany. From Germany she flies to the US where is asks for asylum but gets thrown in jail where she suffers horribly. The rest of the story shows us the terrible treatment a refugee faces in prison and also shows us Fauziya's immense courage. We meet her legal tam and follow the events that lead to her eventual parole and release. it's nearly impossible to believe that this is a true story. A totally amazing book. So glad I read it. nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
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A true story of persecution, friendship, and ultimate triumph,Do They Hear You When You Crychronicles the struggles of two extraordinary women: Fauziya Kassindja, who fled her African homeland to escape female genital mutilation only to be locked up in American prisons for sixteen months; and Layli Miller Bashir, a driven young law student who fought for Fauziya's freedom. Fauziya Kassindja's harrowing story begins in Togo, Africa, where she enjoyed a sheltered childhood, shielded by her progressive father from the tribal practice of polygamy and genital mutilation. But when her father died in 1993, Fauziya's life changed dramatically. At age seventeen Fauziya was forced to marry a man she barely knew who already had three wives, and prepare for the tribal ritual of female genital mutilation--a practice that is performed without painkillers or antibiotics. But hours before the ritual was to take place, Fauziya's sister helped her escape to Germany, and from there she traveled to the United States seeking asylum--and freedom. Instead, she was stripped, shackled, and locked up in various INS detention facilities for sixteen months. Enter Layli Miller Bashir, a driven twenty-three-year-old law student who took on Fauziya's case. When the two women met, Layli found an emotionally broken, emaciated girl with whom she forged an extraordinary friendship. Putting her heart and soul into Fauziya's case, Layli enlisted help from the American University International Human Rights Clinic. The clinic's acting director, Karen Musalo, an expert in refugee law, devoted her own considerable efforts to the case, and assembled a team to fight with her on Fauziya's behalf. Ultimately, in a landmark decision that has given hope to many seeking asylum on the grounds of gender-based persecution, Fauziya was granted asylum on June 13, 1996. Here, for the first time, is Fauziya's dramatic personal story, told in her own words, vividly detailing her life as a young woman in Togo and her nightmarish day-to-day existence in U.S. prisons. It is a story of faith and freedom, courage and inspiration--one that you will not soon forget. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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