Gender Equality and Asylum Law: Feminist Theory and the Refugee Decision-making Process in the Nordics

Even though the Nordic region has come closest to achieving gender equality, it is increasingly clear that there is an uneven approach to women’s rights and a need to promote them both internally and externally. This book develops creative approaches for the purposes of eliminating subordination, marginalisation, and the exclusion of women, specifically for migrant women seeking asylum.Minimal research has been conducted on the possible interplay between gender equality and asylum law in the Nordic countries.Recently there have been several calls for a more gender sensitive approach to ensure the needs and rights of asylum-seeking women and children, for example, by providing protection to those who are at risk of gender-related persecution.There are also calls, and in the case of Iceland, legal obligations, to implement gender mainstreaming into the decision-making process. This work analyses the possibilities that this entails.It presents a study of what happens in the administrative