Download or read book The New Asylum Seekers Refugee Law in the 1980 s written by David A. Martin and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-09-27 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The New Asylum Seekers Refugee Law in the 1980s written by David Martin and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-08-23 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The End of Asylum written by Andrew Ian Schoenholtz and published by Georgetown University Press. This book was released on 2021 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Trump administration's war on asylum and what we can do about it
Download or read book Refugees Asylum written by D. Anker and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Refugee Act of 1980 is the first act in the history of US immigration law to purport to implement a policy and to create a mechanism, to deal comprehensively with alien refugees and applicants for political asylum. This paper by the Co-chairperson of the Asylum and Refugee Committee of the American Lawyers' Association discusses the major changes from previous law: e.g. repeal of former geographical and ideological discrimination, adoption of universal United Nations definition of refugee, establishment of permanent and systematic refugee admission and resettlement assistance programme. The status of refugees and of political asylum seekers (asylees) is defined, and the application for asylum and for withholding of deportation (section 243(h) of the INA) explained. The paper contains copious footnotes with references to juridical interpretations of the provisions of the Act in specific cases.
Download or read book Immigration and Immigrants written by Michael Fix and published by Urban Institute Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Refugee Act of 1980 Amendment written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Immigration, Refugees, and International Law and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book UNHCR and International Refugee Law written by Corinne Lewis and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-06-25 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book considers the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees’ contribution to international refugee law since the establishment of UNHCR by the United Nations General Assembly in 1951. The book explores the historical and statutory foundations that create an indelible link between UNHCR and international refugee law. This book charts the significant evolution that has occurred in the organisation’s role throughout the last sixty years, looking at both the formal means by which UNHCR’s mandate may be modified, and the techniques UNHCR has used to facilitate the changes in its role, thereby revealing a significant evolution in the organisation’s role since the onset of the crisis in refugee protection in the 1980’s. UNHCR, itself, has demonstrated its organizational autonomy as the primary agent for the adaptation of its responsibilities and work related to international refugee law. The author does suggest however that UNHCR needs to continue to extend and strengthen its role related to international refugee law if UNHCR is to ensure a stronger legal framework for the protection of refugees as well as a fuller respect for refugees’ rights in practice. UNHCR and International Refugee Law should be of particular interest to refugee lawyers as well as academics and students of refugee law and international law, and anyone concerned with the important role that UNHCR plays in the protection of refugees today.
Download or read book Islands of Sovereignty written by Jeffrey S. Kahn and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2019-01-03 with total page 373 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Islands of Sovereignty, anthropologist and legal scholar Jeffrey S. Kahn offers a new interpretation of the transformation of US borders during the late twentieth century and its implications for our understanding of the nation-state as a legal and political form. Kahn takes us on a voyage into the immigration tribunals of South Florida, the Coast Guard vessels patrolling the northern Caribbean, and the camps of Guantánamo Bay—once the world’s largest US-operated migrant detention facility—to explore how litigation concerning the fate of Haitian asylum seekers gave birth to a novel paradigm of offshore oceanic migration policing. Combining ethnography—in Haiti, at Guantánamo, and alongside US migration patrols in the Caribbean—with in-depth archival research, Kahn expounds a nuanced theory of liberal empire’s dynamic tensions and its racialized geographies of securitization. An innovative historical anthropology of the modern legal imagination, Islands of Sovereignty forces us to reconsider the significance of the rise of the current US immigration border and its relation to broader shifts in the legal infrastructure of contemporary nation-states across the globe.
Download or read book Contemporary Issues in Refugee Law written by Satvinder Singh Juss and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2013-01-01 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Refugee law is going through momentous times, as dictatorships tumble, revolutions simmer and the 'Arab Awakening' gives way to the spread of terror from Syria to the Sahel in Africa. This compilation of topical chapters, by some of the leading scholars in the field, covers major themes of rights, security, the UNHCR, international humanitarianism and state interests and sets out to map new contours. The concerns over our security are replacing humanitarian concerns over the plight of others. Securitization, exclusion and the internal relocation of genuine refugees are now the favoured polices. Yet, while central idioms of protection, persecution and non-refoulement have changed, there are also new demands on refugee law. The contributors to this book ask whether there are new spheres of protection emerging, for which refugee law must find a clear space, such as the protection of child refugees, trafficked persons, gender-related asylum and conscientious objectors to military service. This timely and valuable book shows that in these uncertain times, refugee law still has an exciting and challenging future ahead. Contemporary Issues in Refugee Law will appeal to academics, researchers, students and practitioners.
Download or read book The Refugee Relief Act of 1953 written by Frank Ludwig Auerbach and published by . This book was released on 1953 with total page 5 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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.
Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of International Refugee Law written by Cathryn Costello and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2021 with total page 1337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Handbook draws together leading and emerging scholars to provide a comprehensive critical analysis of international refugee law. This book provides an account as well as a critique of the status quo, setting the agenda for future research in the field.
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 156 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.
Download or read book U S Immigration Policy written by Council on Foreign Relations. Independent Task Force on U.S. Immigration Policy and published by Council on Foreign Relations. This book was released on 2009 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Few issues on the American political agenda are more complex or divisive than immigration. There is no shortage of problems with current policies and practices, from the difficulties and delays that confront many legal immigrants to the large number of illegal immigrants living in the country. Moreover, few issues touch as many areas of U.S. domestic life and foreign policy. Immigration is a matter of homeland security and international competitiveness, as well as a deeply human issue central to the lives of millions of individuals and families. It cuts to the heart of questions of citizenship and American identity and plays a large role in shaping both America's reality and its image in the world. Immigration's emergence as a foreign policy issue coincides with the increasing reach of globalization. Not only must countries today compete to attract and retain talented people from around the world, but the view of the United States as a place of unparalleled openness and opportunity is also crucial to the maintenance of American leadership. There is a consensus that current policy is not serving the United States well on any of these fronts. Yet agreement on reform has proved elusive. The goal of the Independent Task Force on U.S. Immigration Policy was to examine this complex issue and craft a nuanced strategy for reforming immigration policies and practices.
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 The Refugee in International Law written by Guy S. Goodwin-Gill and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1996 with total page 632 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The situation of refugees is now one of the most pressing and urgent problems facing the international community and refugee law has grown in recent years to a subject of global importance. In this long-awaited second edition, each chapter has been thoroughly revised and updated and every issue, old and new, has received fresh analysis. Features of this new edition include: extensive additional annexes; coverage of new subjects, including internally displaced persons; so-called preventive protection; access to refugees; safety of refugees and relief personnel; the situation of refugee women and children; a detailed examination of the role of the UNHCR; an assessment of the protection possibilities (or lack of them) in the European Convention on Human Rights, and the current situation and possible future problems for Palestinians and emphasis on the decision-making process.
Download or read book A Right to Flee written by Phil Orchard and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-10-09 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the origins and evolution of refugee protection over the past four centuries.
