Women’s Fear of Witchcraft: Oco v A Decision of The Upper Tribunal (Immigration and Asylum Chamber) [2012]
by Katia Bianchini
Question(s) at stake
Whether, firstly, the First Tier Tribunal erred in law when it found that it would be unduly harsh for the applicant to relocate elsewhere in Nigeria, and secondly, whether the Upper Tribunal erred when it ruled that the First Tier Tribunal had found that the risk of persecution to the claimant existed throughout Nigeria.
Outcome of the ruling
The appeal was allowed by Scottish Court of Session: the decision of the First Tier Tribunal was reinstated.
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Official citation
Oco v A Decision of The Upper Tribunal (Immigration and Asylum Chamber) [2012] CSIH 65
Topic(s)
Keywords:
Gender based persecution Grounds/Reasons of persecution Membership of a particular social group Refugee status Asylum seeker Internal relocation alternative
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Katia Bianchini (Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Department Law and Anthropology, Germany)
Katia Bianchini is a Research Fellow of the Law and Anthropology Department of the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology in Halle. She holds a law degree from the University of Pavia (Italy), an LL.M. in Comparative Laws from the University of San Diego (California, USA), and a Ph.D. in Law from the University of York (UK). Her doctoral thesis provided an empirical and legal analysis of how the 1954 UN Convention relating to the Status of Stateless Persons is implemented in ten EU states. She has also worked as a Post-Doctoral Researcher at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity (Göttingen). Before engaging in research, she practised immigration and refugee law for ten years in the UK and the USA.
Bianchini has published in the field of refugee law, statelessness, and the rule of law in the context of sea migration. Her current research builds on her expertise in human rights and Italian law and looks at the treatment of deceased sea migrants in the South of Italy.