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Refugee Status
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The Right Coast
Mideast Christians Deserve U.S. Refuge – WSJ
In the worst cases, Christians have been tortured, raped and even crucified. Mosul, Iraq, which was home to a Christian population of 35,000 a decade ago, is now empty of…
ImmigrationProf Blog
Thanksgiving Day Hunger Strikes by Over 100 Immigrant Detainees Reported
The #NotOneMore Deportation campaign reports that this Thanksgiving weekend, over 100 immigrant detainees across the country -- primarily asylum seekers fleeing persecution in their home countries -- began hunger strikes to protest…
The Right Coast
Yes, we should consider refugees religion
The Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965, which governsthese issues, defines refugee as someone who has fled from his or her homecountry and cannot return because he or she has…
International Law Prof Blog
U.S.-Mexican Migration
USA Today reports that from 2009 to 2014, approximately 870,000 Mexican nationals came to the United States. During that same period, more than one million Mexican nationals returned to Mexico.…
Gender and the Law Prof Blog
Recognizing Gender as a Basis for Asylum
By Tracy Thomas
Melanie Randall (W. Ontario), Particularized Social Groups and Categorical Imperatives in Refugee Law: State Failures to Recognize Gender and the Legal Reception of Gender Persecution Claims in Canada, the United…
ImmigrationProf Blog
Treat Central American Asylum Seekers with Dignity and Fairness–Not Detention
Guest Blogger: Kaitlin Talley, second-year law student, University of San FranciscoReflection on Spending a Week with Detained Asylum Seekers in Dilley, Texas“Welcome to the United States.” This is what refugees…
ImmigrationProf Blog
Are we ok with incarcerating and penalizing refuge seeking survivors and their children?
Guest blogger: Ned Juri-Martinez, second-year law student, University of San Francisco:Recently the University of San Francisco School of Law, Immigration and Deportation Defense clinic spent a week volunteering with the…
Reproductive Rights Prof Blog
The Lingering Trauma of China’s One-Child Policy
New York Times (Oct. 31, 2015): China's Longtime One-Child Rule Is Gone, but Trauma Lingers, by Edward Wong:"Comprehensively implement a policy that couples can have two children, actively taking steps…
ImmigrationProf Blog
Black US citizen seeks refugee status in Canada on account of his race
Mark Hansen of the ABA Journal reports on an interesting asylum case in Canada.A U.S. citizen is seeking asylum in Canada because he says he’s afraid of being killed by…
ImmigrationProf Blog
UNHCR Report on Female Refugees from Central America
The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees has released a report, “Women on the Run: First-Hand Accounts of Refugees Fleeing El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras and Mexico.” The report is based…