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ImmigrationProf Blog
Immigration Article of the Day: Domestic Violence Asylum and the Perpetuation of the Victimization Narrative by Natalie Nanasi
Domestic Violence Asylum and the Perpetuation of the Victimization Narrative by Natalie Nanasi, Southern Methodist University Dedman School of Law February 3, 2016Abstract: Pitiful. Helpless. Powerless. The words often used…
ImmigrationProf Blog
Difference Between a Refugee and Deportee? A Lawyer
Julianne Hing writes in The Nation:Two years after tens of thousands of children and families began fleeing rampant violence in Central America for the United States, a year and a…
ImmigrationProf Blog
Reid Introduces Fair Day In Court Act To Protect Children Seeking Asylum
To begin to remedy this injustice, Senator Harry Reid (D-NV), along with Senators Dick Durbin (D-IL), Patty Murray (D-WA), Patrick Leahy (D-VT), and Bob Menendez (D-NJ), introduced the “Fair Day…
Gender and the Law Prof Blog
New Work on Domestic Violence in the Immigration Context
By Tracy Thomas
Natali Nanasi (SMU), Domestic Violence Asylum and the Perpetuation of the Victimization NarrativeAbstract: Pitiful. Helpless. Powerless. The words often used to describe survivors of domestic violence conjure a vivid and specific…
ImmigrationProf Blog
Ensuring Due Process Protections for Central American Refugees
Philip E. Wolgin fo rthe Center for American Progress has a new column that considers major due process failings in the process surrounding the removal process of asylum-seekers arrested in recent the…
ImmigrationProf Blog
Detained Central American Mothers Send Letter to President Obama
Seven women picked up and detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement in early January in widely publicized raids have made a direct and personal plea to President Barack Obama to…
ImmigrationProf Blog
UK Refguees’ Red Door Problem
Check out this photo from Reuters. What do you see?According to refugees in Middlesbrough (in North East England), that red door gives notice to the community that asylum seekers live…
The Right Coast
Finnish police: There was unprecedented sexual harassment by asylum seekers in Helsinki on NYE too « Hot Air
Tell me if this sounds familiar. Then tell me why Finnish police waited a week to mention it.via hotair.com
ImmigrationProf Blog
Speak Out Against Raids on Central American Asylum Seekers
From Fr. William Kelley, SJI'm writing today to ask you to join me in speaking out in opposition to raids targeting Central American asylum seekers.On the eve of the Christmas…
ImmigrationProf Blog
Sophie Feal: Law School Clinics, Legal Services Organizations in Action
Two of Cornell Law School’s clinics, the LGBT Advocacy Clinic supervised by Susan Hazeldean, and the Farmworker Legal Assistance Clinic supervised by Beth Lyon, filed with the immigration court in…