A Further Step to Gender-Sensitive EU Asylum Law: The Case of ‘Westernised Women’

 

Türkan Ertuna Lagrand, Assistant Professor, and Salvo Nicolosi, Senior Assistant
Professor, University of Utrecht

Photo credit: Mystslav Chernov, via Wikimedia
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Gender-based asylum
claims have been gaining momentum in EU law. On 11 June 2024, the Court of
Justice of the European Union (CJEU) published its most recent judgment in the
case of K, L v Staatssecretaris van Justitie en Veiligheid (C-646/21