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ImmigrationProf Blog
Immigration Article of the Day: Refugee Credibility Assessment and the ‘Religious Imposter’ Problem: A Case Study of Eritrean Pentecostal Claims in Egypt by Michael Kagan
Refugee Credibility Assessment and the 'Religious Imposter' Problem: A Case Study of Eritrean Pentecostal Claims in Egypt Michael Kagan University of Nevada, Las Vegas, William S. Boyd School of Law…
ImmigrationProf Blog
The Use of Discretion to Deny a Truly Desperate Asylum Seeker who is Eligible for Relief: Li v. Holder
The Ninth Circuit today in LI v. HOLDER issued an intresteding asylum opinion, written by Judge Richard C. Tallman, joined by Judges Ferdinand F. Fernandez and Pamela Ann Rymer.Junming Li,…
ImmigrationProf Blog
Australian High Court rules against refugee swap
ROD McGUIRK of the Associated Press reports that "Australia's highest court ruled Wednesday that asylum seekers can't be sent to Malaysia, a major blow to the government's plan to stem…
ImmigrationProf Blog
Civil Rights Conference at Georgia Law, Immigration at the Forefront in the Peach State
Yesterday, the Georgia Law Review produced a first rate conference on “Civil Rights and Civil Wants?” at the Dean Rusk Center at the University of Georgia Law School in Athens,…
ImmigrationProf Blog
Emerging Issues for LGBT Immigrants and Asylum Seekers
Emerging Issues for LGBT Immigrants, Asylees and Refugee Seekers CLEMonday, August 8, 20115:00 - 7:30 PMRoom 3211 at Golden Gate University in San Francisco2 Hours California MCLE credit will be…
ImmigrationProf Blog
Seeking Asylum : Trends and Policies in the OECD
Seeking Asylum : Trends and Policies in the OECD August 4, 2011 23:06 by the Centre for Economic Policy Research analyzes some of the continuing asylum policy issues facing the…
ImmigrationProf Blog
LGBT Immigrants and Asylum Applicants
Emerging Issues for LGBT Immigrants, Asylees and Refugee Seekers CLEMonday, August 8 · 5:00pm - 7:30pmLocation: Room 3211 at Golden Gate University in San FranciscoBy National Lawyers Guild San Francisco…
International Law Prof Blog
60th Anniversary of the Refugee Convention
Today, July 28, marks the 60th anniversary of the adoption of the UN Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees in 1951. The Convention defines a refugee as a person…
ImmigrationProf Blog
A Plea to Reserve Judgment: The Immigrant Maid in the Dominique Strauss-Kahn Case
The story has something for everybody -- sex, celebrity, money, power, politics, and international intrigue. The result has been nothing less than a media field day.Here is the latest in…
ImmigrationProf Blog
Immigration Article of the Day: “Searching for the Key in the Wrong Place: Why ‘Common Sense’ Credibility Rules Consistently Harm Refugees” by JAMES PARRY EYSTER
"Searching for the Key in the Wrong Place: Why 'Common Sense' Credibility Rules Consistently Harm Refugees" Boston University International Law Journal, Vol. 30, No. 1, 2011 JAMES PARRY EYSTER, Ave…