26 January 2026

Regional Focus: United States - Pt. 2

Reports: 

The Intelligible Asylum Seeker: Creating an Affectively Credible Protagonist, Global Migration Research Paper, no. 34 (Global Migration Centre, Jan. 2026 [text]

New Frameworks for Language Access: Tracking the Expansion & Features of State & Local Laws & Policies (Migration Policy Institute, Jan. 2026) [text]

Reforming the "Aggravated Felony" Category in U.S. Immigration Law: Toward Proportionality, Justice, and Due Process (UC Davis School of Law, Dec. 2025) [text]

Ringing the Alarm Bells: Rising Authoritarian Practices and Erosion of Human Rights in the United States (Amnesty International, Jan. 2026) [access]
- Alarm Bells nos. 6, 7, 8 focus on immigration-related actions.

Sliding Towards Authoritarianism? (Human Rights Watch, Jan. 2026) [access]
- See esp. “Targeting Marginalized Communities.” 

Journal articles:

"External and Internal Migration," Southern California Review of Law and Social Justice, vol. 33, no. 3 (Summer 2024) [full-text]

"Membership in a 'Particular Social Group': The Narrow Access to Asylum for Gang-Affected Youth," Univ. of Dayton Law Review, vol. 51, no. 1 (2025) [full-text]

"An Unclear Connection: The Asylum System's 'One Central Reason' Test," William & Mary Law Review Online, vol. 67, no. 2 (2025) [full-text]

"Unleashing Power in New Ways: Immigration in the First Year of Trump 2.0," Migration Information Source, 13 Jan. 2026 [text]
- See also related webinar recording.

"Weaponized Bureaucracy at the Criminal-Immigration Divide," Washington Law Review, vol. 101 (Forthcoming 2026) [preprint]

Resource:

Know Your Rights Resources for ICE and Border Patrol Encounters (2026 Update) (Austin Kocher Substack) [access]

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