Topic
Refugee Status
1,300 published works
ImmigrationProf Blog
From the Bookshelves: Lives in the Balance: Asylum Adjudication by the Department of Homeland Security by Andrew I. Schoenholtz, Philip G. Schrag, and Jaya Ramji-Nogales
Lives in the Balance: Asylum Adjudication by the Department of Homeland Security by Andrew I. Schoenholtz, Philip G. Schrag, and Jaya Ramji-Nogales Although Americans generally think that the U.S. Department…
SBM Blog
If Malala Yousafzai Applied For Asylum In The U.S.
National Law Journal has a short, gripping piece that offers insight into the U.S. asylum process and the value of pro bono. It describes the asylum application of a girl…
ImmigrationProf Blog
Immigration Article of the Day: Passenger 17A: The Snowden, Asylum and the Surveillance-Privacy Debate by Neha Bhat
Passenger 17A: The Snowden, Asylum and the Surveillance-Privacy Debateby Neha Bhat American University - Washington College of Law August 2013 Abstract: Refugee rights activists in the Indian sub-continent used India’s rejection…
ImmigrationProf Blog
Immigration Article of the Day: A ‘Special Track’ for Former Child Soldiers: Enacting a ‘Child Soldier Visa’ as an Alternative to Asylum Protection by Elizabeth Rossi
A 'Special Track' for Former Child Soldiers: Enacting a 'Child Soldier Visa' as an Alternative to Asylum Protectionby Elizabeth Rossi U.S. District Court July 26, 2013 Berkeley Journal of International…
ImmigrationProf Blog
DREAM 9 Seek Asylum
Cindy Carcamo of the Los Angeles Times reports on the immigrants known as the “Dream 9” will get the chance to argue their case for asylum before an immigration judge.The…
ImmigrationProf Blog
Careen Shannon: “Edward Snowden and the Politics of Asylum”
Immigration lawyer Careen Shannonon Nation of Immigrators writes about the Edward Snowden asylum saga. Snowden has now been granted temporary asylum in Russia, which he earlier indicated he was seeking…
Capital Thinking
State-Foreign Operations Appropriations Update
Executive and Legislative Branch Activity State-Foreign Operations Appropriations Update Last week, Senate Appropriations Committee members added a provision in the Senate FY 2014 State-Foreign Operations spending bill that seeks to…
ImmigrationProf Blog
Venezuela Offers Asylum to Snowden
CNN reports that Venezuela says it has extended an offer of asylum to Edward Snowden, but it has not heard back from him.The nation has not had any communication with…
ImmigrationProf Blog
immigration Article of the Day: Jack C. Dolance II, U.S. Asylum Law as a Path to Religious Persecution
Jack C. Dolance II, U.S. Asylum Law as a Path to Religious Persecution, Virginia Journal of International Law (Vol. 53: No. 2). Abstract: U.S. asylum law protects against persecution “on account…
ImmigrationProf Blog
Sexual Identity Asylum and U.S. Politics
Guest blogger: Emmett Luty, second-year law student, University of San Francisco When immigrants arrive in the United States, they hopefully find family or a…