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ImmigrationProf Blog
Immigration Article of the Day: Storied Pasts: Evolving Norms in US Affirmative Asylum Narratives 1989-2018 by Abigail Stepnitz
Storied Pasts: Evolving Norms in US Affirmative Asylum Narratives 1989-2018 by Abigail Stepnitz, Law and Inequality: A Journal of Theory and Practice, Vol. 41, No. 2, 2023AbstractThis article develops a framework…
ImmigrationProf Blog
LA Times Op Ed by Karen Musalo and Audrey Macklin: Now Trump’s Cruel Border Policy Is Spreading in Canada
Karen Musalo and Audrey Macklin have authored an Op Ed in the Los Angeles Times criticizing Canada's expansion of its Safe Third Country Agreement, which allows it to return asylum…
ImmigrationProf Blog
New U.S.-Canada Agreement on Asylum Seekers
WaPo reports today that Biden and Trudeau have reached an new agreement regarding asylum seekers allowing "each country turn away asylum seekers who reach their border at unofficial crossings." The…
ImmigrationProf Blog
Profile on U.S. Representative Ilhan Omar
Guest blogger: Angelica Soria, Masters in Migration Studies Student, University of San Francisco:Ilhan Abdullahi Omar was born on October 4th, 1982, in the capital of Somalia, Mogadishu. At the age…
ImmigrationProf Blog
Grief and Unaccompanied Minors
Guest blogger: Ailleene Maldonado, Masters in Migration Studies Student, University of San Francisco: It is easy as adults to see children as not having the emotional capacity to deal with…
ImmigrationProf Blog
Immigration Article of the Day: Refugeehood Reconsidered: the Central American Migration Crisis by Steven Macedo
Refugeehood Reconsidered: the Central American Migration Crisis by Steven MacedoAbstract“Who is a refugee?” This essay explores the lively debate on this question in ethics, political theory, and international law. The world…
ImmigrationProf Blog
Court Allows Remain in Mexico Lawsuit to Move Forward
News on an important piece of immigration litigation from earlier this week:"[A] federal court largely denied the Biden administration’s motion to dismiss a lawsuit, Immigrant Defenders Law Center et al.…
ImmigrationProf Blog
We Must Do Better At The Border
Guest Blogger: Alondra Saldivar, law student, University of San Francisco:At the border, the days go by fast and painstakingly slow. Time seems endless. People waiting for asylum feel like the…
Steve Cornforth Blog
Concerning boats, lefty lawyers and mythical fat cats!
I spent a happy (?) evening last night watching MPs debate the Illegal Migration Bill. Some of the rhetoric on the government side was stomach turning, including the Home Secretary’s…
ImmigrationProf Blog
Immigration Article of the Day: Making Protection Unexceptional: A Reconceptualization of the U.S. Asylum System by Denise L. Gilman
Making Protection Unexceptional: A Reconceptualization of the U.S. Asylum System by Denise L. GilmanAbstract This Article posits that the United States treats asylum as exceptional, meaning that asylum is presumptively unavailable…