Asylum and Female Genital Mutilation: Membership in a Particular Social Group Inadequately Protecting Persecuted Women (Comment)

Abstract

The question is what is the social group for women who have undergone female genital mutilation (FGM) and how should that be decided? This Comment exposes difficulties of defining a social group and focuses on how female genital mutilation victims establish membership in a particular social group. Finally, it proposes a solution where membership in a particular social group is avoided altogether for victims of FGM