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Refugee Roulette

Author : Jaya Ramji-Nogales
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 0814741061
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (147 download)

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Download or read book Refugee Roulette written by Jaya Ramji-Nogales and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2011-04-29 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through the Refugee Act of 1980, the United States offers the prospect of safety to people who flee to America to escape rape, torture, and even death in their native countries. In order to be granted asylum, however, an applicant must prove to an asylum officer or immigration judge that she has a well-founded fear of persecution in her homeland. The chance of winning asylum should have little if anything to do with the personality of the official to whom a case is randomly assigned, but in a ground-breaking and shocking study, Jaya Ramji-Nogales, Andrew I. Schoenholtz, and Philip G. Schrag learned that life-or-death asylum decisions are too frequently influenced by random factors relating to the decision makers. In many cases, the most important moment in an asylum case is the instant in which a clerk randomly assigns the application to an adjudicator. The system, in its current state, is like a game of chance. Refugee Roulette is the first analysis of decisions at all four levels of the asylum adjudication process: the Department of Homeland Security, the immigration courts, the Board of Immigration Appeals, and the United States Courts of Appeals. The data reveal tremendous disparities in asylum approval rates, even when different adjudicators in the same office each considered large numbers of applications from nationals of the same country. After providing a thorough empirical analysis, the authors make recommendations for future reform. Original essays by eight scholars and policy makers then discuss the authors' research and recommendations Contributors: Bruce Einhorn, Steven Legomsky, Audrey Macklin, M. Margaret McKeown, Allegra McLeod, Carrie Menkel-Meadow, Margaret Taylor, and Robert Thomas.

Asylum and “Credible Fear” Issues in U.S. Immigration Policy

Author :
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1437984738
Total Pages : 39 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (379 download)

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Download or read book Asylum and “Credible Fear” Issues in U.S. Immigration Policy written by and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on with total page 39 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Refugee Roulette

Author : Philip G. Schrag
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 0814741053
Total Pages : 357 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (147 download)

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Download or read book Refugee Roulette written by Philip G. Schrag and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2009-09-01 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through the Refugee Act of 1980, the United States offers the prospect of safety to people who flee to America to escape rape, torture, and even death in their native countries. In order to be granted asylum, however, an applicant must prove to an asylum officer or immigration judge that she has a well-founded fear of persecution in her homeland. The chance of winning asylum should have little if anything to do with the personality of the official to whom a case is randomly assigned, but in a ground-breaking and shocking study, Jaya Ramji-Nogales, Andrew I. Schoenholtz, and Philip G. Schrag learned that life-or-death asylum decisions are too frequently influenced by random factors relating to the decision makers. In many cases, the most important moment in an asylum case is the instant in which a clerk randomly assigns the application to an adjudicator. The system, in its current state, is like a game of chance. Refugee Roulette is the first analysis of decisions at all four levels of the asylum adjudication process: the Department of Homeland Security, the immigration courts, the Board of Immigration Appeals, and the United States Courts of Appeals. The data reveal tremendous disparities in asylum approval rates, even when different adjudicators in the same office each considered large numbers of applications from nationals of the same country. After providing a thorough empirical analysis, the authors make recommendations for future reform. Original essays by eight scholars and policy makers then discuss the authors’ research and recommendations Contributors: Bruce Einhorn, Steven Legomsky, Audrey Macklin, M. Margaret McKeown, Allegra McLeod, Carrie Menkel-Meadow, Margaret Taylor, and Robert Thomas.

Social Work with Immigrants and Refugees

Author : Elaine P. Congress, DSW
Publisher : Springer Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9780826133366
Total Pages : 496 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (333 download)

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Download or read book Social Work with Immigrants and Refugees written by Elaine P. Congress, DSW and published by Springer Publishing Company. This book was released on 2008-10-27 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book is an optimal tool for instructors and students of graduate classes in social work and related disciplines." --Journal of Immigrant and Minority Health "I applaud social work students, professors, and social workers who seek to serve and empower the immigrant community. This text is a great tool toward raising awareness of the many issues immigrants face, and helping them find solutions." --Frank Sharry, Executive Director, America's Voice "The book is a major contribution to social workers and their clients as it addresses advocacy on behalf of immigrants and refugees during a social, economic and political period that restricts immigrants' rights and service access." --Dr. Diane Drachman, Associate Professor, University of Connecticut School of Social Work Successful social work with immigrants must begin with an understanding of their legal status and how that status impacts their housing, employment, health care, education, and virtually every other aspect of life. Chang-Muy and Congress present social workers with the only book on the market to emphasize the legal aspect of immigrant issues as well as critical practice and advocacy issues. Topics discussed include historical and current trends in immigration, applicable theories for practice with immigrants, policy and advocacy methods, and the need for cultural competence. By providing comprehensive coverage of both the legal and practice issues of this complex field, this book will help social service professionals and graduate students increase their cultural sensitivity and work more effectively with immigrants. Key Features: Covers the latest aspects of the immigration debate and discusses how social workers are affected by emerging immigration policies Discusses special populations such as refugees, elderly immigrants, and victims of international trafficking Includes case studies on the most critical issues immigrants face today: legal processes, physical and mental health issues, employment difficulties, family conflicts, and more Instructional Materials Available! Free to instructors with a verified order of seven or more copies. Email [email protected] to request syllabus and PowerPoint slides.

Lives in the Balance

Author : Philip G. Schrag
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 1479865982
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (798 download)

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Download or read book Lives in the Balance written by Philip G. Schrag and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2014-01-03 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although Americans generally think that the U.S. Department of Homeland Security is focused only on preventing terrorism, one office within that agency has a humanitarian mission. Its Asylum Office adjudicates applications from people fleeing persecution in their homelands. Lives in the Balance is a careful empirical analysis of how Homeland Security decided these asylum cases over a recent fourteen-year period. Day in and day out, asylum officers make decisions with life-or-death consequences: determining which applicants are telling the truth and are at risk of persecution in their home countries, and which are ineligible for refugee status in America. In Lives in the Balance, the authors analyze a database of 383,000 cases provided to them by the government in order to better understand the effect on grant rates of a host of factors unrelated to the merits of asylum claims, including the one-year filing deadline, whether applicants entered the United States with a visa, whether applicants had dependents, whether they were represented, how many asylum cases their adjudicator had previously decided, and whether or not their adjudicator was a lawyer. The authors also examine the degree to which decisions were consistent among the eight regional asylum offices and within each of those offices. The authors’ recommendations, including repeal of the one-year deadline, would improve the adjudication process by reducing the impact of non-merits factors on asylum decisions. If adopted by the government, these proposals would improve the accuracy of outcomes for those whose lives hang in the balance.

Asylum Denied

Author : David Ngaruri Kenney
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520261593
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (22 download)

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Download or read book Asylum Denied written by David Ngaruri Kenney and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2009-08-17 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes one political refugee's long and difficult struggle through immigration processing, detailing his imprisonment in Kenya, his escape to the U.S., and the ordeal of dealing with a bureaucracy that sought to deport him.

Background testimony

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Government Operations
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Background testimony written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Government Operations and published by . This book was released on 1958 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

How to Get a Green Card

Author : Ilona Bray
Publisher : NOLO
ISBN 13 : 9781413316872
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (168 download)

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Download or read book How to Get a Green Card written by Ilona Bray and published by NOLO. This book was released on 2012 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A step-by-step guide to obtaining U.S. residency by various non-work related means, such as political asylum, the visa lottery or a family member"--Provided by publisher.

Refugee Law and Policy

Author : Karen Musalo
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1056 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Refugee Law and Policy written by Karen Musalo and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 1056 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Seeking Asylum

Author : Hélène Lambert
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004479473
Total Pages : 239 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (44 download)

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Download or read book Seeking Asylum written by Hélène Lambert and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-09-27 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The human and political problems presented by refugees and asylum are acute and are not improving. This is reflected in international concern and the existence of a treaty framework. The emergent body of refugee law is an amalgam of international, regional and national rules and procedures. But it is national law and practice, particularly with regard to immigration, which in reality determines an individual's right to asylum. The key to a true appreciation and understanding of the plight of refugees and the extent of their current rights therefore lies in national law and practice.

The Law of Asylum in the United States

Author : Deborah E. Anker
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Law of Asylum in the United States written by Deborah E. Anker and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a detailed guide to the substantive and procedural law of asylum and refugee protection in the United States. In approaching this task it combines detailed discussions of actual doctrine and case law with explanations of the important details of this law's administrative practice. After defining what is meant by the term 'asylum', the author examines the legal framework which exists for the protection of refugees or asylum seekers. Given that this framework is derived from sources of both international and domestic law, the author devotes separate sections to international law, international refugee law and domestic law. The author then clarifies which individuals are entitled to apply for asylum and the withholding of deportation, before attempting a 'when, where and how' appraisal of the application procedure itself. The book presents a comprehensive assessment of the applicant's rights and examines the criteria which must be fulfilled, in theory, for an application to be successful (i.e. for a persecution claim to be proved). Finally, the book has some interesting features in its lengthy appendices: a list of lawyers who have had experience in representing asylum claimants from different countries (contact addresses testify to the book's function as a practical guide); a human rights documentation resource list; and the reproduction, in detail, of both case summaries and the full texts of several decisions of the Board of Immigration Appeals.

AILA's Asylum Primer

Author : Dree K. Collopy
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781573704328
Total Pages : 1680 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (43 download)

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Download or read book AILA's Asylum Primer written by Dree K. Collopy and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 1680 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Adjudicating Refugee and Asylum Status

Author : Benjamin N. Lawrance
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107069068
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book Adjudicating Refugee and Asylum Status written by Benjamin N. Lawrance and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-02-26 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive study offering the first comparative account of the increasing dependence on expertise in the asylum and refugee status determination process.

Identities on Trial in the United States

Author : ChorSwang Ngin
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1498574742
Total Pages : 267 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (985 download)

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Download or read book Identities on Trial in the United States written by ChorSwang Ngin and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2018-08-15 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Identities on Trial in the United States radically shifts the asylum seeker narrative by focusing on rarely heard stories of persecution and escape from China and Southeast Asia. ChorSwang Ngin, with contributions from immigration attorney, Joann Yeh, explores asylum seeker cases through an anthropological and legal lens.

Disavowing Asylum

Author : Ronit Lentin
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1786612542
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (866 download)

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Download or read book Disavowing Asylum written by Ronit Lentin and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2021-07-13 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book combines historical and geographical analysis of the direct provision asylum system with a theoretical analysis of the disavowal of the system by state and society and first-person narrative of the lived experience"--

Refuge Lost

Author : Daniel Ghezelbash
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108425259
Total Pages : 227 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (84 download)

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Download or read book Refuge Lost written by Daniel Ghezelbash and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-02-22 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As more restrictive asylum policies are adopted around the world, Ghezelbash explores the implications for the international refugee protection regime.

African Asylum at a Crossroads

Author : Iris Berger
Publisher : Ohio University Press
ISBN 13 : 0821445189
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (214 download)

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Download or read book African Asylum at a Crossroads written by Iris Berger and published by Ohio University Press. This book was released on 2015-05-15 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: African Asylum at a Crossroads: Activism, Expert Testimony, and Refugee Rights examines the emerging trend of requests for expert opinions in asylum hearings or refugee status determinations. This is the first book to explore the role of court-based expertise in relation to African asylum cases and the first to establish a rigorous analytical framework for interpreting the effects of this new reliance on expert testimony. Over the past two decades, courts in Western countries and beyond have begun demanding expert reports tailored to the experience of the individual claimant. As courts increasingly draw upon such testimony in their deliberations, expertise in matters of asylum and refugee status is emerging as an academic area with its own standards, protocols, and guidelines. This deeply thoughtful book explores these developments and their effects on both asylum seekers and the experts whose influence may determine their fate. Contributors: Iris Berger, Carol Bohmer, John Campbell, Katherine Luongo, E. Ann McDougall, Karen Musalo, Tricia Redeker Hepner, Amy Shuman, Joanna T. Tague, Meredith Terretta, and Charlotte Walker-Said.