Developing ethnographic knowledge is largely about understanding and retaining nuance, complexity, and, even, contradiction. In the asylum courtroom, however, the law looks for certainty, clear percentages of likelihood of harm, and general, essential claims that a given people/country are a particular way. In this essay, I reflect on the ways in which the asylum system, by requiring that individuals be at risk because of their category (particular social group with immutable characteristics), casts other categories of people as inherently violent. I am particularly concerned with this dynamic in terms of gender-based violence claims, where women's very real fears of domestic abuse in Honduras are frequently argued in such a way that serves to reinforce the idea that Central American men are uniquely violent. This, then, undercuts the asylum claims of young Honduran men who are, at the same time, those most likely to be killed upon deportation.

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特殊的社会群体麻烦：产生“不值得”寻求庇护者的类别

发展民族志知识主要是为了理解和保留细微差别、复杂性，甚至矛盾。然而，在庇护法庭上，法律寻求确定性、明确的伤害可能性百分比，以及特定人民/国家是特定方式的一般、基本主张。在这篇文章中，我反思了庇护制度如何通过要求个人因其类别（特别是具有不变特征的社会群体）而处于危险之中，从而将其他类别的人视为天生具有暴力倾向的人。我特别关注基于性别的暴力主张方面的这种动态，在洪都拉斯女性对家庭虐待的真实恐惧经常以这样一种方式被争论，这有助于强化中美洲男性具有独特暴力倾向的观点。那么，这