Lives in the Balance : Asylum Adjudication by the Department of Homeland Security /

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"Although Americans generally think that the U.S. Department of Homeland Security is focused only on preventing terrorism, one office within that agency has a humanitarian mission. Its Asylum Office adjudicates applications from people fleeing persecution in their homelands. Lives in the Balanc...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores principales: Schoenholtz, Andrew Ian, 1951- (Autor), Ramji-Nogales, Jaya (Autor), Schrag, Philip G., 1943- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : New York University Press, [2014]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
United States. > Department of Homeland Security.
Political refugees > Legal status, laws, etc.
Political refugees > Government policy.
Emigration and immigration law.
Asylum, Right of.
Administrative procedure.
LAW > Public.
LAW > Constitutional.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > General.
LAW > General.
Droit d'asile > États-Unis.
Emigration and immigration law > United States.
Administrative procedure > United States.
Political refugees > Government policy > United States.
Political refugees > Legal status, laws, etc. > United States.
Asylum, Right of > United States.
United States.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • Seeking refuge
  • The applicants and the adjudicators
  • The one-year filing deadline
  • Timeliness
  • The rejections
  • Four eras of asylum adjudication : grant rates over time
  • Perceptions about asylum seekers
  • Variations across the regional asylum offices
  • Disparities within asylum offices
  • The asylum officers
  • Conclusions.

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