; (ii) defined with particularity; and (iii) socially distinct within the society in question. (B) The term political opinion means an ideal or conviction in support of the furtherance of a discrete cause related to political control of a state or a unit thereof. (C) The term persecution means the infliction of a severe level of harm constituting an exigent threat by the government of a country or by persons or an organization that the government was unable or unwilling to control. Such term does not include— (i) generalized harm or violence that arises out of civil, criminal, or military strife in a country; (ii) all treatment that the United States regards as unfair, offensive, unjust, unlawful, or unconstitutional; (iii) intermittent harassment, including brief detentions; (iv) threats with no actual effort to carry out the threats, except that particularized threats of severe harm of an immediate and menacing nature made by an identified entity may constitute persecution; or (v) non-severe economic harm or property damage. . 108. Firm resettlement Section 208 of the Immigration and Nationality Act ( 8 U.S.C. 1158 ), as amended by this title, is further amended by adding at the end the following: (g) Firm resettlement In determining whether an alien was firmly resettled in another country prior to arriving in the United States under subsection (b)(2)(A)(xiv), the following shall apply: (1) In general An alien shall be considered to have firmly resettled in another country if, after the events giving rise to the alien’s asylum claim— (A) the alien resided in a country through which the alien transited prior to arriving in or entering the United States and— (i) received or was eligible for any permanent legal immigration status in that country; (ii) resided in such a country with any non-permanent but indefinitely renewable legal immigration status (including asylee, refugee, or similar status, but excluding status of a tourist)