Download or read book The Implementation of the Refugee Act of 1980 written by and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Implementation of the Refugee Act of 1980 A Decade of Experience written by and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 97 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This paper focuses on current issues arising from the implementation of the Refugee Act of 1980. Arguing that the purpose of the Act has been frustrated by the dominant considerations of foreign policy objectives, the authors find that the system gives wide discretionary power to adjudicators who are said to be poorly educated for their work or have been recruited from within the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) with an 'anti-alien bias' which lends itself to persuasion from the State Department. More specifically, this ideological and geographical bias in asylum adjudications is made explicit in the inhumane deterrence measures of interdiction and detention programmes which have been devised to confront such situations as the arrivals of Haitians and Central Americans. In reviewing the Act, the paper provides an account of its legislative history together with a description of how the Act was designed to work, paying special attention to overseas admissions provisions concerning procedures and criteria relative to asylum and non-refoulement. Actual practices with jurisprudential influences are reviewed to reveal how the administration of the Act has developed through the decade. A key feature of the administration of the Act is said to be the failure to decide upon a final rule governing asylum adjudications. Following this general review of the Act and its implementation, the specific case of the Haitian Interdiction Program is discussed as an issue of access to protection. Similarly, detention measures are reviewed and discussed in terms of detention policy and in terms of regulations mandating employment authorization. As a result of these considerations, the authors offer fifteen recommendations for changes to the Act and its implementation. These include: reduction of arbitrariness and improper political influence in admissions decisions; improved confidentiality; improvements in the quality of adjudicators and judges with compulsory instruction in the law and history of human rights and refugees; greater recruitment from outside the INS; discontinuance of the State Department's practice of providing opinions on individual asylum cases; free legal counsel for indigent asylum applicants; improvements in processing refugee claims abroad; discontinuance of deterrent measures, especially the Haitian Interdiction Program; qualifications of the detention of asylum seekers, with improvements in detention facilities; incorporation of international standards into domestic law concerning refugees and deportation; establishment of a formal safe haven policy and a policy of humanitarian admissions; establishment of a new immigration admissions programme.
Download or read book Immigration Controls written by Kay Hailbronner and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 1998 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Some of the most pressing questions in immigration law and policy today concern the problem of immigration controls. How are immigration laws administered, and how are they enforced against those who enter and remain in a receiving country without legal permission? Comparing the United States and Germany, two of the four extended essays in this volume concern enforcement; the other two address techniques for managing high-volume asylum systems in both countries.
Download or read book Global Refugee Crisis written by Mark Gibney and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2010-09-16 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book documents the current global refugee crisis and examines the interrelated factors of immigration enforcement, international human rights law, political violence, and refugee protection. There are two disparate components to the global refugee crisis: first, there are about 46 million refugees and Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs), most of whom are struggling to survive in the poorest and most violent countries in the world, and second, our interpretation of international human rights law allows this state of affairs to worsen. Refugee protection has been a longstanding policy that ostensibly protects victims of human rights violations from other countries. In actuality, protection is largely negated by systematic efforts by industrialized states to reduce the number of refugees arriving at the borders. This book provides a comprehensive examination of this worldwide problem and rejects the idea that the majority of asylum seekers abuse the system to gain entrance into the country.
Download or read book Remapping Asian American History written by Sucheng Chan and published by Rowman Altamira. This book was released on 2003 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Remapping Asian American History discusses new frameworks such as transnationalism, the political contexts of international migrations, and a multipolar approach to the study of contemporary U.S. race relations. Collectively, the essays in this volume challenge some long-held assumptions about Asian-American communities and point to new directions in Asian American historiography. Visit our website for sample chapters!
Download or read book National Security and Policy in America written by Wesley S. McCann and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-11-28 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book investigates the strategic use of America’s historical crime control, counterterrorism, national security and immigration policies as a mechanism in the modern-day Trump administration to restrict migration and refugee settlement with a view of promoting national security and preservation. National Security and Policy in America critically explores how American culture, neocolonial aspirations, and indifference towards others negatively impact long-term global security. This book examines immigration and security policies and their origins, purpose, impact, and evolution vis-à-vis the recently imposed ‘travel ban’ and proposed border wall across the Southern border, as well as how foreign policy influenced many of the migration flows that are often labeled as security risks. The book also seeks to understand why immigration has been falsely associated with crime, terrorism, and national insecurity, giving rise to counterproductive policies, despite evidence that immigrants face intolerance and turmoil due to the powerful distinctions between them and the native-born. This book uses an interdisciplinary framework in examining the U.S.’ current response to immigration and security and will thus appeal to undergraduate and graduate students of law, social justice, criminology, critical theory, neo-colonialism, security studies, policing, migration, and political science, as well as those interested in the practical questions of public administration.
Download or read book The Vietnamese American 1 5 Generation written by Sucheng Chan and published by Temple University Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Riveting stories by refugees who fled Vietnam.
Download or read book Problems of Protection written by Niklaus Steiner and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Download or read book Asian American written by David Palumbo-Liu and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 522 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book argues that the invention of Asian American identities serves as an index to the historical formation of modern America. By tracing constructions of "Asian American" to an interpenetrating dynamic between Asia and America, the author obtains a deeper understanding of key issues in American culture, history, and society. The formation of America in the twentieth century has had everything to do with "westward expansion" across the "Pacific frontier" and the movement of Asians onto American soil. After the passage of the last piece of anti-Asian legislation in the 1930's, the United States found it had to grapple with both the presence of Asians already in America and the imperative to develop its neocolonial interests in East Asia. The author argues that, under these double imperatives, a great wall between "Asian" and "American" is constructed precisely when the two threatened to merge. Yet the very incompleteness of American identity has allowed specific and contingent fusion of "Asian" and "American" at particular historical junctures. From the importation of Asian labor in the mid-nineteenth century, the territorialization of Hawaii and the Philippines in the late-nineteenth century, through wars with Japan, Korea, and Vietnam and the Cold War with China, to today's Asian Pacific Economic Cooperation group, the United States in the modern age has seen its national identity as strongly attached to the Pacific. As this has taken place, so has the formation of a variety of Asian American identities. Each contains a specific notion of America and reveals a particular conception of "Asian" and "American." Complicating the usual notion of "identity politics" and drawing on a wide range of writingssociological, historical, cultural, medical, anthropological, geographic, economic, journalistic, and politicalthe author studies both how the formation of these identifications discloses the response of America to the presence of Asians and how Asian Americans themselves have inhabited these roles and resisted such categorizations, inventing their own particular subjectivities as Americans.
Download or read book The UNHCR and World Politics written by Gil Loescher and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2001-05-25 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over fifty years ago governments established the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) to protect the world's refugees. The UNHCR was created to be a human rights and advocacy organization. But governments also created the agency to promote regional and international stability and to serve the interests of states. Consequently, the UNHCR has always trod a perilous path between its mandate to protect refugees and asylum seekers and the demands placed upon it by states to be a relevant actor in world politics. This is the first independent history of the UNHCR. Gil Loescher, one of the world's leading experts on refugee affairs, draws upon decades of personal experience and research to examine the origins and evolution of the UNHCR as well as to identify many of the major challenges facing the organization in the years ahead. A key focus is to examine the extent to which the evolution of the UNHCR has been framed by the crucial events of international politics during the past half century and how, in turn, the actions of the eight past High Commissioners have helped shape the course of world history. Each chapter tells the story of an individual High Commissioner and examines the unique contributions made to the development of the Office. The history of the last fifty years shows how the UNHCR has initiated and capitalized on international political developments to progressively expand its scope and authority as an important actor in world politics. The book argues that the UNHCR has overstretched itself in recent decades and has strayed from its central human rights protection role. The protection of refugees remains a litmus test of the international community's commitment to defend human rights and to uphold liberal democratic values. Loescher offers a series of bold policy recommendations aimed at making the agency a more effective and accountable advocate for the millions of refugees in the world today.
Download or read book Beyond Charity International Cooperation and the Global Refugee Crisis written by Gil Loescher and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1996-08-08 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With more than 18 million refugees worldwide, the refugee problem has fostered an intense debate regarding what political changes are necessary in the international system to provide effective solutions in the 1990s and beyond. In the past, refugees have been perceived largely as a problem of international charity, but as the end of the Cold War triggers new refugee movements across the globe, governments are being forced to develop a more systematic approach to the refugee problem. Beyond Charity provides the first extensive overview of the world refugee crisis today, asserting that refugees raise not only humanitarian concerns but also issues of international peace and security. Gil Loescher argues persuasively that a central challenge in the post Cold-War era is to develop a comprehensive refugee policy that preserves the right of asylum while promoting greater political and diplomatic efforts to address the causes of flight. He presents the contemporary crisis in a historical framework and explores the changing role of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. Loescher suggests short-term and long-term reforms that address both the current refugee crisis and its underlying causes. The book also details the ways governmental structures and international organizations could be strengthened to assume more effective assistance, protection, and political mediation functions. Beyond Charity helps frame the debate on the global refugee crisis and offers directions for more effective approaches to refugee problems at present and in the future.
Download or read book The North Carolina journal of international law and commercial regilation written by and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 726 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Racism in Contemporary America written by Meyer Weinberg and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 1996-05-23 with total page 854 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Racism in Contemporary America is the largest and most up-to-date bibliography available on current research on the topic. It has been compiled by award-winning researcher Meyer Weinberg, who has spent many years writing and researching contemporary and historical aspects of racism. Almost 15,000 entries to books, articles, dissertations, and other materials are organized under 87 subject-headings. In addition, there are author and ethnic-racial indexes. Several aids help the researcher access the materials included. In addition to the subject organization of the bibliography, entries are annotated whenever the title is not self-explanatory. An author index is followed by an ethnic-racial index which makes it convenient to follow a single group through any or all the subject headings. This is a source book for the serious study of America's most enduring problem; as such it will be of value to students and researchers at all levels and in most disciplines.
Download or read book Refugee Abstracts written by and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 1116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Federal Immigration Law Update written by and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 630 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Immigration Nationality Law Handbook written by and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 1400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Journal of Palestine Studies written by and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 876 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
