Taida Pasić

Taida Pasić (Serbian Cyrillic: Таида Пасић) (born 10 April 1987 in Pristina, Yugoslavia) became famous as a result of the circumstances arising from her application for temporary stay in the Netherlands.

Pasić was born in Pristina, the capital of the Yugoslav province of Kosovo (in present-day Kosovo[a]). As a result of the Kosovo War, her family fled Kosovo in 1999 to the Netherlands, where she spent the remainder of her childhood and became fluent in Dutch. Her family's applications for refugee status were repeatedly rejected, and in 2005 her family accepted a one-time payment to be resettled in Kosovo. She returned to the Netherlands in January 2006 on a French tourist visa, intending to complete her final months of high school.[1]

Pasić was arrested by immigration police while at school in March 2006, and the ensuing political controversy about her alien detention and the actions taken by Dutch integration minister Rita Verdonk became a major issue in Dutch politics, leading indirectly to the resignation and temporary loss of citizenship of Ayaan Hirsi Ali and the fall of the second Balkenende cabinet. In her memoir, Infidel, Hirsi Ali claims to have privately urged Pasić's case and to have told Verdonk that she herself had lied on her asylum application - something that Verdonk denies.[2]

On 28 April 2006, Pasić left the Netherlands for Bosnia, and took her exams in the Dutch embassy in Sarajevo. In August 2006 she became a student at the University of Leiden. In 2010 she graduated in civil law at Leiden University and was a member of LSV Minerva. In 2011, she joined the law firm NautaDutilh in Amsterdam as a trainee lawyer. Since 2014 she has been working at the NautaDutilh office in New York.

Notes and references

Notes:

a.   ^ Kosovo is the subject of a territorial dispute between the Republic of Kosovo and the Republic of Serbia. The Republic of Kosovo unilaterally declared independence on 17 February 2008, but Serbia continues to claim it as part of its own sovereign territory. The two governments began to normalise relations in 2013, as part of the 2013 Brussels Agreement. Kosovo is currently recognized as an independent state by 97 out of the 193 United Nations member states. In total, 112 UN member states recognized Kosovo at some point, of which 15 later withdrew their recognition.

References:

  1. "Dutch judge rejects refugee bid". BBC News. 24 April 2006. Retrieved 2008-02-17.
  2. Hirsi Ali, Ayaan (2007). Infidel. Free Press. ISBN 0-7432-9503-X.


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