A PARTICULAR SOCIAL GROUP CANNOT BE DEFINED ONLY BY THE PERSECUTION FEARED BY ITS MEMBERS
By: Margarita Baldwin* In a recent decision the Court of Appeals for the 7th Circuit upheld the denial of asylum for Johanna Cece, a citizen of Albania, who argued on appeal that young Albanian women in danger of being trafficked for prostitution constitute a social group. See Cece v. Holder, No. 11-1989, February 06, 2012 […]