Regional Focus: United States

Blog posts:

Attention Asylum Seekers! File Your Case Before January 11, 2021 (The Asylumist Blog, Dec. 2020) [text]

Fixing Asylum (The Asylumist Blog, Dec. 2020-Jan. 2021)

- Part 1: Politics

- Part 2: USCIS Forms

- Part 3: The Asylum Office

*How Biden Can Restore Humanitarian Protection at the Border (Immigration Impact Blog, Jan. 2021) [text]

Lessons from The President and Immigration Law for a New Administration (ImmigrationProf Blog, Dec. 2020) [text]

The Next-Level Shamelessness of the COVID Security Regs (Jeffrey S. Chase Blog, Jan. 2021) [text]

*The Solicitor General’s Extraordinary Push to Place Even More Immigration Cases on the Supreme Court Docket (ImmigrationProf Blog, Jan. 2021) [text]

Reports: 

Building Better, Not Backward: Learning from the Past to Design Sound Border Asylum Policy (Refugees International, Dec. 2020) [text]

Humanitarian Disgrace: U.S. Continues to Illegally Block, Expel Refugees to Danger (Human Rights First, Dec. 2020) [text]

Public Health Recommendations for Processing Families, Children and Adults Seeking Asylum or Other Protection at the Border (Columbia Univ. et al., Dec. 2020) [access]

Journal articles:

"Deconstructing Invisible Walls: Sotomayor’s Dissents in Era of Immigration Exceptionalism," William & Mary Journal of Women and the Law, vol. 27, no. 1 (2020) [full-text]

"The Household Financial Losses Triggered by an Immigration Arrest, and How State and Local Government Can Most Effectively Protect Their Constituents," Journal on Migration and Human Security, vol. 8, no. 4 (2020) [open access]

"Reinforcing and Contesting Neoliberal Citizenship: Legal Advocates and the Asylum Interview at the US–Mexico Border," Journal of Refugee Studies, Advance Articles, 21 Dec. 2020 [open access]

RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences, vol. 6, no. 3 (Nov. 2020) [open access]

- Special issue on "The Legal Landscape of U.S. Immigration in the Twenty-First Century," with an introduction and 7 articles.

"Understanding Stakeholder Positionalities and Relationships to Reimagine Asylum at the US–Mexico Border: Observations from McAllen, TX," Human Geography, OnlineFirst, 15 Dec. 2020 [free full-text]

"Violence That Builds Sovereignty: The Transnational Violence Continuum in Deportation from the United States," Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, Latest Articles, 17 Dec. 2020 [free full-text]

Multimedia:

How the Biden Administration Can Reset America’s Approach to Refugees, Asylum Seekers and International Migration (UN Dispatch) [access]

Series on Racism in Administrative Law - Part 3: Immigration (A Hard Look Podcast) [access]

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Related posts:

- Regional Focus: United States - Pt. 1 (16 Dec. 2020)

- Regional Focus: United States - Pt. 2 (16 Dec. 2020)