Showing posts with label denial of refugee status. Show all posts
Showing posts with label denial of refugee status. Show all posts

07 July 2026

Regional Focus: United States - Pt. 1

Short pieces:

Abandoning Principles: Unpacking the Supreme Court’s Mullin v. Al Otro Lado Denying Asylum to Arriving Migrants (Just Security, June 2026) [text]

The Founders Lived Through—and Loved—High Immigration Rates (CATO At Liberty Blog, July 2026) [text]

How do US “third country removals” work and are they legal? (Amnesty International, June 2026) [text]
- See also related Just Security post on the recent US-Central African Republic deportation agreement.

"I Helped Write the Refugee Act. Trump is Trampling It," Time Magazine, 9 June 2026 [text]

Immigration in the Supreme Court, 2025 Term (ImmProf Blog, July 2026) [text]

Incompetence and Laziness in Immigration Court (The Asylumist Blog, June 2026) [text]

Rumors of Asylum’s Death Have Been Greatly (Somewhat? Slightly?) Exaggerated (The Asylumist Blog, June 2026) [text]
- See also related ImmProf blog post.

Sanitized and Unreviewable: Unpacking the Supreme Court’s Mullin v Doe on Ending Temporary Protected Status for 1.3m Noncitizens (Just Security, June 2026) [text]
- See also related post on the CATO At Liberty blog.

"The State Department Really Doesn’t Want to Talk About the Office of Remigration," Wired, 27 May 2026 [text]

States Advance ICE Masking Bans, Data Protections, and Immigration Enforcement Guardrails in 2026 (Immigration Impact Blog, July 2026) [text]

**Visit the Americas Migration Brief and ImmProf Blog for more extensive round-ups of news and publications.**

Resource:

Immigration Habeas Tracker: Government Obstruction, Judicial Trust, and Accountability (Just Security) [access]
- "This searchable resource tracks U.S. federal immigration habeas cases filed on or after Jan. 20, 2025, with a specific focus on federal judges’ findings of government misconduct toward the courts."

Related post:

06 July 2026

Regional Focus: Americas - Pt. 2

Journal articles:

"Autocratic Policy Tools and Permissive Outcomes: Governing Venezuelan Displacement in Colombia," Hague Journal on the Rule of Law, Latest Articles, 20 May 2026 [open access]

"Introducing the Freemove Dataset: A Regional Analysis of Free Movement Regimes in Latin America and the Caribbean," International Migration, vol. 64, no. 4 (July 2026) [open access]

"Investigating deception findings in Canadian refugee status rejections: legal inferences and psychological assumptions," Psychiatry, Psychology and Law, vol. 32, no. 6 (2025) [full-text via PubMed]

"Transit migration entrepreneurship: Explaining Nicaragua’s state-controlled, profit-seeking transit migration industry," Migration Studies, vol. 14, no. 3 (Sept. 2026) [open access]

"'[The U.S.] sent us to Mexico until the next court hearing'. Central American mothers’ expulsion and third-country liminality," Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, Latest Articles, 9 June 2026 [open access]

"Wages of whiteness contra refugee in the twenty-first century: Afghan and Ukrainian women’s self-identification as (non)refugees in Canada," Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, Latest Articles, 2 July 2026 [open access]

Resource:

Venezuela: Earthquakes - Jun 2026 [access]
- Visit ReliefWeb's page for the latest situation reports, maps and response plans.

Multimedia:

America’s Closing Door: Where Do Cuban Migrants Go Now? (World of Migration Podcast Series, May 2026) [access]

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02 June 2025

Regional Focus: United States

Short pieces:

"A court halted his deportation. The Trump administration deported him 28 minutes later," Politico, 28 May 2025 [text]

Noem Guidance on Third Country Removals (ImmigrationProf Blog, May 2025) [text]

Removing Protected Status for Afghans in the U.S. is No Way to Treat Allies (Just Security, May 2025) [text]

"Scoop: Stephen Miller, Noem tell ICE to supercharge immigrant arrests," Axios, 28 May 2025 [text]

"State Department seeks to create 'Office of Remigration' in restructuring," Axios, 30 May 2025 [text]
- See also related Mother Jones article.

Supreme Court Allows Trump Administration to End Humanitarian Parole for Migrants from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela (ImmigrationProf Blog, May 2025) [text]

Surge of ICE agreements with local police aim to increase deportations, but many police forces have found they undermine public safety (The Conversation, May 2025) [text]

Trump wants to cut funding to sanctuary cities and towns – but they don’t actually violate federal law (The Conversation, May 2025) [text]

Venezuelan and Haitian TPS Beneficiaries Contribute to the Nation and Should Not Be Deported (CMS, May 2025) [text]

Reports & journal articles:

"Discretionary (In)Justice Continued: Discretion as a Tool to Deny Asylum," Washington and Lee Journal of Civil Rights and Social Justice, vol. 31, no. 2 (2025) [full-text]

"Fragmented Grounds: Chevron’s Collapse and Geographical Disparity in U.S. Asylum Law," Columbia Undergraduate Law Review Online, 27 May 2025 [full-text]

"'Freedom Lives Hence, and Banishment Is Here': The Weaponization of Immigration Law to Punish Political Dissidents," Washington and Lee Journal of Civil Rights and Social Justice, vol. 31, no. 2 (2025) [full-text]

*From Welcoming Allies to Threats of Deportation: The changing status of Afghans in America (Afghanistan Analysts Network, June 2025) [text via ReliefWeb]

Lives at risk: Chaotic and abrupt cuts to foreign aid put millions of lives at risk (Amnesty International, May 2025) [access]

*"The Scope of Pediatric Forensic Psychiatric Evaluations in Student Run Asylum Clinics," Journal of Immigrant and Minority Health, Latest Articles, 31 May 2025 [open access]

*UPDATED

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28 May 2025

Regional Focus: United States - Pt. 1

Short pieces:

Continued Growth of 287(g) Agreements (ImmigrationProf Blog, May 2025) [text]

"How Trump Has Targeted New Groups for Deportation," New York Times, 21 May 2025 [text]

Immigration Court Data: More Asylum Decisions, More Asylum Denials (The Asylumist Blog, May 2025) [text]

Judicial Deference and Presidential Power Under the Alien Enemies Act (Just Security, May 2025) [text]

"Libya looms large in Trump's global forced migration plans," MSNBC, 19 May 2025 [text]
- See also related Vox article.

Miller Says We Can Suspend Habeas Corpus Because of "Invasion"— But His Own Words Belie That Theory (CATO At Liberty Blog, May 2025) [text]

Soft Power Isn’t Charity—It’s Strategy. So Why Are We Gutting It? (International Policy Digest, May 2025) [text]

Supreme Court “De-Documents” 350,000 Venezuelans – and Keeps Everyone in the Dark about What’s Next (Immigration Impact Blog, May 2025) [text]

"Trump administration asks Supreme Court to halt judge’s order on deportations to South Sudan," AP News, 27 May 2025 [text]
- See also related news stories here and here.

The Truth about Medicaid Coverage for Immigrants – and the Looming Threats (Say Ahhh! Blog, May 2025) [text]

"U.S. sends 68 migrants back to Honduras and Colombia in first voluntary deportation," NPR, 20 May 2025 [text]

*A Week of Immigration ‘Red Flags’ From the Trump Administration (Immigration Impact Blog, May 2025) [text]

What is Habeas Corpus and Why is It Important? Here’s What DHS Secretary Kristi Noem Got Wrong (Immigration Impact Blog, May 2025) [text]

Why due process matters for every American, including non-citizens (IRC, May 2025) [text]

*UPDATED

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03 May 2025

Regional Focus: United States

Short pieces:

Court finds President Trump's Summary Removals under the Alien Enemies Act Unlawful (ImmigrationProf Blog, April 2025) [text]

From the Chinese Exclusion Act to pro-Palestinian activists: The evolution of politically motivated deportations (The Conversation, April 2025) [text]

"Here are the top 5 immigration changes from Trump's first 100 days," NPR, 30 April 2025 [text]

Immigration Court to Asylum Seekers: “Explain Yourself or Die!” (The Asylumist, ) [text]

*Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s wrongful deportation case is more about individual rights than the Trump administration’s foreign policy (The Conversation, May 2025) [text]
- See also related OHCHR statement.

*Migration policies of the current US administration (Immigration Lab Blog, May 2025) [text]

New EO: Protecting American Communities from Criminal Aliens (ImmigrationProf Blog, April 2025) [text]

The New “National Defense Area” at the Southern Border: What You Need to Know (Just Security, April 2025) [text]

"Trump administration weighs sending migrants to Libya and Rwanda, sources say," CNN, 1 May 2025 [text]

Trump asks Supreme Court to allow an end to protected status for Venezuelans (SCOTUSBlog, May 2025) [text]

"Trump is getting negative marks on immigration, polls show," Politico, 26 April 2025 [text]

Reports & journal articles:

Chaos & cruelty: 10 compounding assaults on human rights - A review of President Trump’s first 100 days in office (Amnesty International, April 2025) [access]

"Cognitive underpinnings and ecological correlates of implicit bias against non-Americans in the United States," Scientific Reports, 15:15191 (April 2025) [open access]

Illegal Immigrant Incarceration Rates, 2010–2023 (Cato Institute, April 2025) [text]
- See also related blog post.

"Sentencing Immigrants," Southern California Law Review (Forthcoming) [preprint]

"Triangulating Securitization: Analyzing Media Frames of Refugees in U.S. English and Spanish Press," Journal of Social Science, no. 92 (2025) [open access]

United States: Repeal the Alien Enemies Act - A Human Rights Argument (Human Rights Watch, May 2025) [access]

"The violence of uncertainty: theorizing everyday immigrant necropolitics across three cases," Comparative Migration Studies, 13:26 (April 2025) [open access]

Resource:

Explainer on Termination of Parole (Refugees International, April 2025) [access]
- This document will be updated on a weekly basis, and is available in multiple languages.

*UPDATED

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20 May 2024

Regional Focus: United States

Short pieces:

The Biden Administration’s Proposed Rule on Asylum Bars & Other Measures: Explainer (National Immigration Forum, May 2024) [text]
- See also related analysis.

Can You Be Deported for Protesting the War in Gaza? (The Asylumist, May 2024) [text]

DHS and DOJ Announce “Recent Arrivals” Docket Process for More Efficient Immigration Hearings (US Dept. of Homeland Security, May 2024) [text]

Immigration is the demographic savior too many refuse to acknowledge (The Hill, May 2024) [text]

Nearly 1.3 Million Asylum Cases Now Pending in Immigration Court (TRAC, May 2024) [text]

Reports:

Addressing the ‘Crisis’ at the US-Mexico Border: Insights From El Paso and Ciudad Juárez (Rice Univ., April 2024) [text]

“And Some, I Assume, Are Good People”: Determinants of Elites’ Strategic Discourse About Immigrants and Refugees (Utah State Univ., May 2024) [text]

Trapped, Preyed Upon, and Punished: One Year of the Biden Administration Asylum Ban (Human Rights First, May 2024) [text]
- See also related press release.

Two-Thirds of Court Asylum Applicants Over Past Decade Found Legally Entitled to Remain (TRAC, May 2024) [text]

Journal articles & book chapters:

"A Century Later, Restrictive 1924 U.S. Immigration Law Has Reverberations in Immigration Debate," Migration Information Source, 15 May 2024 [text]
- See also related post on The Conversation.

"Forced Back Into the Lion's Mouth: Per Se Reporting Requirements in U.S. Asylum Law," Marquette Law Review, vol. 107, no. (2024) [full-text]

"Frustration and fidelity: how public interest lawyers navigate procedure in the direct representation of asylum seekers," Law & Society Review, FirstView, 16 May 2024 [open access]

"How Recently Imposed Asylum Restrictions by the United States Reinforce Migration-Related Disinformation and Undermine International Law," Univ. of St. Thomas Journal of Law & Public Policy (Forthcoming) [preprint]

"Reviving the Alien Tort Statute: A Roadmap to Recovery for Asylum Seekers Suffering the Harm of Refoulement," Idaho Law Review, vol. 60, no. 2 (2024) [full-text]

"Los solicitantes de asilo durante el gobierno de Joe Biden: caos en la frontera México-Estados Unidos," Chapter in Fronteras en movimiento: Identidad, cooperación y desafíos en la relación México-Estados Unidos (Univ. Autónoma de Baja California, April 2024) [full-text]

Related posts:

31 October 2023

New Issue of JRS

The latest issue of the Journal of Refugee Studies (JRS) has been published. Contents of vol. 36, no. 3, Sept. 2023 include a special issue section on "Irregularized Humanitarian Migrants - Policies, Rationales, and the Search for More Durable Solutions," with nine articles, followed by three general issue articles. 
  • Introduction: Irregularized Humanitarian Migrants—Policies, Rationales, and the Search for More Durable Solutions [open access]
  • At the Crossroads between Care and Control: A Cross-Country Comparison of Assisted Return [abstract]
  • Safe for Whom? A Human Security Perspective on Nigeria as a ‘Safe Country of Origin’ [open access]
  • Who Owns the Future of Syrians in Lebanon? Intimate Family Explorations of Refugees’ Own Search for Durable Solutions [open access]
  • The (Non-)Status of ‘Duldung’: Non-Deportability in Germany and the Politics of Limitless Temporariness [abstract]
  • De-Bordering Solidarity: Civil Society Actors Assisting Refused Asylum Seekers in Small Cities [open access]
  • (Non-)deport to Discipline: The Daily Life of Afghans in Turkey [open access]
  • Departing or Being Deported? Poland’s Approach towards Humanitarian Migrants [open access]
  • From Dadaab Camp to Kismayo City: A Call for Local Evidence to Inform Durable Solutions [abstract]
  • Importance of Asylum Status, Support Programmes, and Family Unit Functioning on the Mental Health of Syrian Forced Migrants in Switzerland: A Longitudinal Study [abstract]
  • What Can Data Justice Mean for Asylum Governance? The Case of Smartphone Data Extraction in Germany [open access]
  • ‘The Great and Miserable Flight’: The Experiences of Refugees in Newsprint during the Thirty Years’ War [open access]
Three book reviews are also included.

Tagged Periodicals.

09 October 2023

New Issue of IJRL

The latest issue of the International Journal of Refugee Law (IJRL) has been published. Contents of vol. 35, no. 1, March 2023 include: 
  • Editorial: Turning Points in International Protection: Onwards and Upwards, or U-Turns and Roundabouts? [abstract]
  • Risk and the Reasonable Refugee: Exploring a Key Credibility Inference in Canadian Refugee Status Rejections [abstract] [SSRN]
  • A Requirement of Shame: On the Evolution of the Protection of LGB Refugees [open access]
  • Applying the ‘Ceased Circumstances’ Cessation Clause: More Politics than Law? [open access]
  • Evaluating the Indian Refugee Law Regime: How Has the Judiciary Responded to Refugee Claims in Light of International Law Obligations, and How Can It Do Better? [abstract]
  • Dignity Deployed: An Examination of Refugee Rights through Domestic Dignity Jurisprudence [abstract]

In addition, readers will find 1) case law summaries; 2) the texts of the High Commissioner's and Assistant High Commissioner's statements to the 73rd session of the Executive Committee of the High Commissioner’s Programme (EXCOM); and 3) two book reviews.

Tagged Periodicals.

23 June 2023

Regional Focus: United States

Short pieces:

"Unlawful southern border entries down 70% from record highs since end of Title 42," ABC News, 6 June 2023 [text]

"U.S. is rejecting asylum seekers at much higher rates under new Biden policy," Los Angeles Times, 20 June 2023 [text]

New edition of open access text:

Immigration Law: An Open Casebook (Bowker, updated June 2023) [open access]
- "The first open-source/open-access casebook on U.S. immigration law. It is designed to serve as the principal text for a broad-based immigration law course as well as a specialty course on crimmigration. The book provides explanations and primary source readings regarding immigration law in the United States. Topics include the constitutional bases for regulating immigration, the contours of the immigration bureaucracy, the admission of immigrants and nonimmigrants into the United States, undocumented migration, the deportation and exclusion of noncitizens, refugee and asylum law, immigration detention, federal and state immigration crimes, border and interior immigration enforcement, and the law concerning citizenship and naturalization."

Reports:

Denial of Justice: The Biden Administration’s Dedicated Docket in the Boston Immigration Court (Harvard Law School, June 2023) [access]

High-Stakes Asylum: How Long an Asylum Case Takes and How We Can Do Better (AILA, June 2023) [access]
- See also related blog post.

A Line That Barely Budges: U.S. Limiting Access to Asylum (Human Rights First, June 2023) [text]

Policy Brief: Defining Humanitarian Statuses (USCRI, June 2023) [text via ReliefWeb]

Journal articles:

"Access to Justice, the Rule of Law, and Due Process in the US Immigration System: A Tribute to Juan Osuna," Journal on Migration and Human Security, OnlineFirst, 16 June 2023 [full-text]

"Due Process Denied: A Case Study on the Failures of U.S. Affirmative Asylum," Harvard International Law Journal Online (Special Issue, June 2023 [full-text]

"Gang Accusations: The Beast That Burdens Noncitizens," Brooklyn Law Review (Forthcoming, 2023) [preprint]

"Geography as Due Process in Immigration Court," Wisconsin Law Review, vol. 23, no. 1 (2023) [full-text]

"Innovative Approaches to Improve COVID-19 Case Investigation and Contact Tracing Among Refugees, Immigrants, and Migrants: Lessons Learned from a Newly Established National Resource Center," Journal of Immigrant and Minority Health, Latest Articles, 7 June 2023 [open access]

"Opportunistic oppression: U.S. migration restrictions and public health policy during the COVID-19 pandemic," International Journal of Human Rights, vol. 27, no. 5 (2023) [open access]

"Refugees and Asylees in the United States," Migration Information Source, 15 June 2023 [text]

"Storied Pasts: Credibility and Evolving Norms in Asylum Narratives 1989–2018," Law & Inequality, vol. 41, no. 2 (2023) [full-text]

"An Unreasonable Presumption: The National Security/Foreign Affairs Nexus in Immigration Law," Brooklyn Law Review, vol. 88, no. 3 (April 2023) [full-text]

Related post:
  

24 April 2023

Thematic Focus: Climate Change & Disasters - Pt. 2

Journal articles:

*"Anticipatory action to manage climate risks: Lessons from the Red Cross Red Crescent in Southern Africa, Bangladesh, and beyond," Climate Risk Management, vol. 40 (2023) [open access]

"A capital theory approach to migrants' views and engagement with climate adaptation in the region of origin: A qualitative study in Belgium," International Migration, Early View, 6 April 2023 [open access]

"Climate refugees or labour migrants? Climate reductive translations of women’s migration from coastal Bangladesh," Journal of Peasant Studies, Latest Articles, 29 March 2023 [open access]

"The evolution of Aotearoa New Zealand's policy discourses on Pacific climate mobilities from 2006–2021," Frontiers in Climate, 10 Jan. 2023 [open access]

*"An inventory tool to assess displacement data in the context of weather and climate-related events," Climate Risk Management, vol. 40 (2023) [open access]

*"Migration and climate change in Africa: A differentiated approach through legal frameworks on the free movement of people," Law, Democracy and Development, vol. 27 (2023) [open access]

"Socio-Environmental Displacement Associated with Climate Change: An Emergency of the Risk Society in Colombia’s Central Coffee-Growing Region," Estudios Socio-Jurídicos, vol. 25, no. 1 (2023) [open access]

"Statehood, Human Rights and Sea-Level Rise: A Response to the International Law Commission’s Second Issues Paper on Sea-Level Rise in Relation to International Law," Yearbook of International Disaster Law Online, vol. 4, no. 1 (2021; publ. April 2023) [open access]

"Storm Warning: New Zealand's Treatment of 'Climate Refugee' Claims as a Violation of International Law," American Univ. International Law Review, vol. 37, no. 2 (2023) [full-text]

"Sustainable refugee camp design in the Dalhamyie settlement (Bekaa, Lebanon) for climate change context," City, Territory and Architecture, 10:2 (Jan. 2023) [open access]
- See also related blog post.

"UN Human Rights Bodies and the UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights and Climate Change," Yearbook of International Disaster Law Online, vol. 4, no. 1 (2021; publ. April 2023) [open access]

Multimedia:

Changing Climate, Changing Migration: Are Orderly Borders Possible in an Era of Rising Climate Migration?, 15 April 2023 [access]

*UPDATED

27 March 2023

Regional Focus: United States

Opportunity:

Webinar: The Crisis in U.S. Immigration Adjudication, 26 April 2023 [info]

Blog posts & press:

"Biden administration quietly resumes deportations to Russia," The Guardian, 18 March 2023 [text]

Everything’s Bigger in Texas, Including Asylum Denial Rates (RLI Blog, March 2023) [text]

Immigrants with ‘Big Law’ Attorneys More Likely to Avoid Deportation (Science Blog, March 2023) [text]

NIMBYism at the Border (Harvard Law Review Blog, March 2023) [text]

Revamping Asylum at the U.S.-Mexico Border: A Workable Rescue? (MPI Commentary, March 2023) [text]

Three Years of Title 42 (Immigration Impact Blog, March 2023) [text]

"U.S. and Canada reach a deal to close a popular but unofficial border crossing," NPR, 24 March 2023 [text]

Where the ‘Migrant Protection Protocols’ Stand, Four Years after Going into Effect (Immigration Impact Blog, March 2023) [text]

WOLA and Temple Law School Present a New Series of Resources for Asylum Attorneys (WOLA, Feb. 2023) [text]
- "Joint Project Compiles Information on Country of Origin Conditions including Children and Gangs, State Complicity, Internal Relocation, Human Rights Defenders and Journalists, and Gender."

Reports & journal articles:

25 Years of Immigration Court Decisions (TRAC, March 2023) [text]

"Bringing 'Civil'ity into Immigration Law: Using the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure to Fix Immigration Adjudication," Vanderbilt Law Review (Forthcoming) [preprint]

Comments of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees on the Proposed Rule from the U.S. Department of Justice (Executive Office for Immigration Review) and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services): "Circumvention of Lawful Pathways" (UNHCR, March 2023) [text]

"Forced Back into the Lion's Mouth: Per Se Reporting Requirements in U.S. Asylum Law," Marquette Law Review (Forthcoming) [preprint]

"Frequently Requested Statistics on Immigrants and Immigration in the United States," Migration Information Source, 14 March 2023 [text]

"Guilty After Proven Innocent: Hidden Factfinding in Immigration Decisionmaking," California Law Review, vol. 112 (Forthcoming) [preprint]

Immigration Judge Decisions Overturning Asylum Officer Findings in Credible Fear Cases (TRAC, March 2023) [text]

"Immigration Law and Slavery: Rethinking the Migration or Importation Clause," Wisconsin Law Review, vol. 2023, no. 4 (Forthcoming) [preprint]

"Punitive Legal Immigration," Kentucky Law Journal (Forthcoming) [preprint]

Related posts:

16 December 2022

Regional Focus: Europe - Pt. 1

Blog posts & press:

Asylum claim rejections show the UK government has little understanding of what people are fleeing – and it’s costing lives (The Conversation, Dec. 2022) [text]

Challenging the European Migration Agenda (E-International Relations, Dec. 2022) [text]

"Editorial: Three Lessons and Some New Year’s Resolutions: Asylum at the End of an Unpredictable Year," ECRE Weekly Bulletin, 16 Dec. 2022 [text]

"Europe’s unprecedented response to Ukrainian refugees faces new challenges," Vox, 16 Dec. 2022 [text]

International Migrants’ Day, 18 December 2022 (EPRS, Dec. 2022) [text]

Latest on migration [What Think Tanks are thinking] (EPRS, Dec. 2022) [text]

Plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose: the puzzling “status quo tendency“ in EU migration policy (MPC Blog, Dec. 2022) [text]

UNHCR appeals to UK to uphold its international legal obligations (UNHCR, Dec. 2022) [text]

Journal articles:

"Asylum adjudication system: A new frontier of legal culture," Oñati Socio-Legal Series, vol. 12, no. 6 (2022) [open access]
- Focuses on Italy.

"Asylum Seekers’ Responses to Government COVID-19 Recommendations: A Cross-sectional Survey in a Swiss Canton," Journal of Immigrant and Minority Health, Latest Articles, 12 Dec. 2022 [open access]

"The European Court of Human Rights’ Approach to Causes of Iranians’ Asylum Applications in the light of Non-Refoulement Principle," International Human Rights Law Review, vol. 11, no. 1 (2022) [ResearchGate]

"Ukrainian-War Refugees in Poland: Assessment and Recommendations for Crisis Preparedness Education and Implementation," Polish Political Science Yearbook, Ahead of Print, 30 Oct. 2022 [open access]

"The use of the abuse policy narrative in asylum debates and its effects on citizens’ opinion formation," Journal of Public Policy, FirstView, 12 Dec. 2022 [open access]
- Focuses on Switzerland.

Multimedia:

The Ukrainian Displacement Crisis: A Conversation with the European Commission's Director General for Migration and Home Affairs, 13 Dec. 2022 [access]

Related posts:

03 November 2020

Regional Focus: United States

Opportunity:

Webinar: An Asylum and Refugee System in Tatters: Where Do We Go from Here?, 11 November 2020 [info]

Blog posts & press:

Government Records Shed Light on Illegal Expulsions of Asylum Seekers and Children (Human Rights First Blog, Oct. 2020) [text]

Immigrants and Revolutionists [access]
- A "free, biweekly newsletter about American immigration histories. But this newsletter isn’t just about the past: the stories here are also about immigration now, and about what the future of American immigration looks like."

Severed families, raided workplaces and a climate of fear: Assessing Trump's immigration crackdown (The Conversation, Oct. 2020) [text]

Symposium: From the travel ban to the border wall, restrictive immigration policies thrive on the shadow docket (SCOTUSblog, Oct. 2020) [text]

"Trump aide Stephen Miller preparing second-term immigration blitz," The Guardian, 28 Oct. 2020 [text]

Whatever the Election Results, There is Work to Be Done (The Asylumist Blog, Oct. 2020) [text]

Reports & journal articles:

2020 Supplement: Immigration and Refugee Law and Policy, 7th ed. (Foundation Press, 2019) [text]
- "This Supplement covers developments since the publication of the seventh edition of Immigration and Refugee Law and Policy in January 2019. It incorporates and replaces the 2019 Supplement."

Asylum Denial Rates Continue to Climb (TRAC, Oct. 2020) [text]

"Asylum Under Attack," Loyola Law Review (Forthcoming, Fall 2020) [preprint]

"Categorical Confusion in Asylum Law," Florida Law Review (Forthcoming, 2021) [preprint]

CBP Has Taken Steps to Limit Processing of Undocumented Aliens at Ports of Entry (Homeland Security Office of Inspector General, Oct. 2020) [text]
- See also related AP news article and Human Rights First press release.

The Dangers of Categorical Crime Bans (Niskanen Center Commentary, Oct. 2020) [text]

Evidence Shows That Most Immigrants Appear for Immigration Court Hearings: Factsheet (Vera Institute of Justice, Oct. 2020) [text]

Rethinking the U.S.-Mexico Border Immigration Enforcement System: A Policy Road Map (Migration Policy Institute, Oct. 2020) [text]

Temporary Protected Status: Overview and Current Issues (Congressional Research Service, updated Oct. 2020) [text]

"Trump's Promise of Millions of Deportations is Yet to Be Fulfilled," Migration Information Source, 29 Oct. 2020 [text]

"Using estimates of undocumented immigrants to study the immigration-crime relationship," Journal of Crime and Justice, Latest Articles, 3 Oct. 2020 [free full-text]
- See also related post on The Conversation.

Related posts:


05 February 2020

Regional Focus: Europe - Pt. 2

Individual countries:

Alpine Refugees:  Immigration at the Core of Europe (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2019) [contents]
- Follow link for TOC, preface, and chapters 1 and 2. Focus is on Austria, Italy, and Switzerland.

"Because Migri Says So': Legitimation in Negative Asylum Decisions in Finland," Nordic Journal of Migration Research, Ahead of Print, 11 Dec. 2019 [open access]

"Book Review: From Righteousness to Far Right: An Anthropological Rethinking of Critical Security Studies," International Migration Review, OnlineFirst, 27 Jan. 2020 [free full-text]
- Focus is on Sweden.

Confinement? Asylum Seekers and Rural Dispersion in Ireland’s Direct Provision System (Border Criminologies Blog, Jan. 2020) [text]

"Exploring the Differential Effects of Perceived Threat on Attitudes Toward Ethnic Minority Groups in Germany," Frontiers in Psychology, 8 Jan. 2020 [open access]

"Italy-Libya Memorandum of Understanding: Italy’s International Obligations," Hastings International and Comparative Law Review, vol. 43, no. 1 (Winter 2020) [full-text]

Libya: Renewal of Migration Deal Confirms Italy’s Complicity in Torture of Migrants and Refugees (Amnesty International, Jan. 2020) [text]

"Nations Rebound: German Politics of Deporting Afghans," International Quarterly for Asian Studies, vol. 50, nos. 1-2 (2019) [open access]

New Yearly Report on Torture of Asylum Seekers by Croatian Authorities at the EU External Borders (Border Violence Monitoring Network, Jan. 2020) [text via ECRE]

Reception Conditions in Italy: Updated Report on the Situation of Asylum Seekers and Beneficiaries of Protection, in Particular Dublin returnees, in Italy (Swiss Refugee Council, Jan. 2020) [text via ECRE]

*Refugee Protection Regimes Working Paper Series (Respond Project, Jan. 2020)
- Country reports are available for Sweden and Turkey.

When Politicians Turn Immigration into a ‘Crisis,’ They Hurt Their Own People (The Conversation, Jan. 2020) [text]
- Focuses on Italy.

*UPDATED

Related post:
- Regional Focus: Europe - Pt. 1 (5 Feb. 2020)


21 January 2020

Regional Focus: United States - Pt. 2

Data & infographics:

Analysis of FY 2018 Legal Immigration Statistics (National Foundation for American Policy, Jan. 2020) [text]

Asylum Decisions Vary Widely Across Judges and Courts: Latest Results (TRAC, Jan. 2020) [text]

Contrasting Experiences: MPP vs. Non-MPP Immigration Court Cases (TRAC, Dec. 2019) [text]

Immigration Judges Asylum Grants & Denials: Fiscal Years 2018-2019 (ImmigrationProf Blog, Dec. 2019) [text]

Processing of Adults and Family Units Arriving at the Southern Border without Valid Documents (Congressional Research Service, Jan. 2020) [access]

Record Number of Asylum Cases in FY 2019 (TRAC, Jan. 2020) [text]
- See also related Vox article.

Related post:
Regional Focus: United States - Pt. 1 (21 Jan. 2020)


25 November 2019

Regional Focus: Americas

Blog posts & press:

"Canada Defends 'Safe Third Country' Pact with U.S. as Court Wraps up," Reuters, 8 Nov. 2019 [text]

Forced Internal Migration Grows in Venezuela (openDemocracy, Nov. 2019) [text]

"Mapped: The Venezuelan Diaspora and Growing Emigration Challenges," The New Humanitarian, 21 Nov. 2019 [text]

Three Facts You Haven’t Heard Much about are Keys to Better Policy Toward Central America (CGD Blob, Nov. 2019) [text]
- See also related Twitter thread.

UNHCR Welcomes Commitment by Central American States and Mexico to Address Forced Displacement (UNHCR, Nov. 2019) [text]

US$1.35 Billion Needed to Help Venezuelan Refugees and Migrants and Host Countries: Joint UNHCR-IOM Press Release (Nov. 2019) [text]

Reports:

*"The Cartagena Declaration at 35 and Refugee Protection in Latin America," e-International Relations, 22 Nov. 2019 [text]

"De la Teoría a la Práctica": Un Informe de 61 Organizaciones de Sociedad Civil de Belice, Guatemala, Honduras, México y Panamá sobre el Marco Integral Regional de Protección y Soluciones (MIRPS) (Norwegian Refugee Council, Nov. 2019) [text via ReliefWeb]

The Migrant Caravan: From Honduras to Tijuana - An Analysis by the Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies Fellows (2018-2019) (UC San Diego, Aug. 2019) [text]

Not Just the Luck of the Draw? Exploring Competency of Counsel in Federal Court Refugee Leave Determinations (2005-2010) (SSRN, Nov. 2019) [preprint]

Painting the Full Picture: Displacement Data Gaps in the NTCA (Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre, Nov. 2019) [text]

Social Policy Trends: The Asylum Claim Backlog Surpasses 80,000 Cases (Univ. of Calgary, Nov. 2019) [text]
- Focus is on Canada.

Venezuela Migration Crisis - A Protection Crisis: Testimonies from Children, Adolescents and Young Refugees and Migrants from Venezuela (Plan International, Nov. 2019) [text via ReliefWeb]

*UPDATED

Related posts:
- Regional Focus: Americas - Pt. 1 (30 Oct. 2019)
Regional Focus: Americas - Pt. 2 (30 Oct. 2019)

Tagged Publications.

28 January 2019

Thematic Focus: Women - Pt. 2 (U.S.)

"As More Migrants are Denied Asylum, an Abuse Survivor is Turned Away," NPR, 18 Jan. 2019 [text]

Asylum and Related Protections for Aliens Who Fear Gang and Domestic Violence, Legal Sidebar (Congressional Research Service, updated Jan. 2019) [text]

Central American Women Fleeing Domestic Violence Deserve Refugee Status (The Hill, Jan. 2019) [text]

CGRS and HRW Release Video, Call on Government to Restore Protections for Domestic Violence Survivors (Center for Gender & Refugee Studies, Jan. 2019) [access]

*"Gender-based Violence in Central America and Women Asylum Seekers in the United States," Translational Criminology (Winter 2019) [full-text]
- Scroll down to p. 12.

IJs Grant Gender-based Asylum Claims (Jeffrey S. Chase Blog, Jan. 2019) [text]
- See also related Immigration Courtside blog post.

"Rosi’s Choice," Virginia Quarterly Review, vol. 94, no. 1 (Spring 2018) [full-text]
- “When a young mother fleeing violence in El Salvador faces long odds for asylum, it raises a crucial question: Who deserves sanctuary in America?”

10 January 2019

Thematic Focus: Children

New guidelines:

Guidelines on Assessing and Determining the Best Interests of the Child: 2018 Provisional Release (UNHCR, Nov. 2018) [text]
- "These revised BIP Guidelines represent the operationalization of UNHCR’s commitment to the protection of children of concern, and to ensuring that a child’s best interests are a primary consideration in decisions about what actions are in an individual child’s best interests. They aim to better situate the Best Interests Procedure within a holistic approach to child protection case management and to explain how a best interests procedure fits within a comprehensive child protection system. The revised BIP Guidelines aim to strengthen child protection case management for UNHCR’s children of concern, and, ultimately, achieve improved protection outcomes for all children of concern." Note: These guidelines replace both the 2008 BID Guidelines and the 2011 BID Field Handbook.

Publications:

"Analysing the Effectiveness of Foster Care Arrangement for Unaccompanied Refugee Children at Tongogara Refugee Camp, Zimbabwe," African Journal of Social Work, vol. 8, no. 2 (2018) [open access]

EASO Guidance on Reception Conditions for Unaccompanied Children: Operational Standards and Indicators (EASO, Dec. 2018) [text]

Global Roundtable on Reception and Care-Arrangements for Asylum-Seeking Children, 10-11 October 2018, Bangkok, Thailand: Summary of Discussions (UNHCR, Dec. 2018) [text]

Idlib: Children’s Lives on the Line (Save the Children, Oct. 2018) [text via ReliefWeb]

"Inclusion through Political Participation, Trust from Shared Political Engagement: Children of Migrants and School Activism in Italy," Journal of International Migration and Integration, Latest Articles, 7 Jan. 2019 [open access]

Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, vol. 45, no. 2 (2019) [contents]
- Special issue on "Undocumented and Unaccompanied: Children of Migration in the European Union and the United States." The introduction is freely available.

Standards for the Custody, Placement and Care; Legal Representation; and Adjudication of Unaccompanied Alien Children in the United States (American Bar Association, 2018) [text]

"The Trump Administration is Closing the Door on Migrant Children," The Atlantic, 25 Dec. 2018 [text]

*"Unaccompanied Minors: Worldwide Research Perspectives," Publications, vol. 7, no. 1 (Dec. 2018) [open access]

US: Unaccompanied Children Turned Back at Border (Human Rights Watch, Dec. 2018) [text]

Washington University Global Studies Law Review, vol. 17, no. 3 (2018) [full-text]
- Includes an essay on "Child Migrants and Child Welfare: Toward A Best Interests Approach," with three articles responding to and expounding on the author's propositions.

*UPDATED

Related post:
- Thematic Focus: Children & Families (10 Dec. 2018)

Tagged Publications. 

30 November 2018

Regional Focus: United States - Pt. 2

Reports & journal articles:

Americas: Stuck at the Door - The Urgent Need for Protection of Central American Refugees, Asylum Seekers and Migrants in the Caravans (Amnesty International, Nov. 2018) [text]

Asylum Decisions and Denials Jump in 2018 (TRAC, Nov. 2018) [text]

Communities in Crisis: Interior Removals and Their Human Consequences (Center for Migration Studies, Nov. 2018) [text]

Gauging the Impact of DHS’ Proposed Public-Charge Rule on U.S. Immigration (Migration Policy Institute, Nov. 2018) [text]

Report on State Immigration Laws, January-June 2018 (National Conference of State Legislatures, Oct. 2018) [text]
- See also related Immigration Impact blog post.

Settling in: A Profile of the Unauthorized Immigrant Population in the United States, Fact Sheet (Migration Policy Institute, Nov. 2018) [text]

"Social Distance toward Syrian Refugees: The Role of Intergroup Anxiety in Facilitating Positive Relations," Journal of Social Issues, Early View, 14 Nov. 2018 [open access]

Timeline of Federal Policy on Immigration, 2017-2020 (Ballotpedia, updated Nov. 2018) [access]
- Highlights "major events and policy announcements on immigration."

"Trump Administration’s Unprecedented Actions on Asylum at the Southern Border Hit Legal Roadblock," Migration Information Source, 29 Nov. 2018 [text]

U.S. Unauthorized Immigrant Total Dips to Lowest Level in a Decade (Pew Research, Nov. 2018) [text]
- See also related FactTank blog post and Washington Post article.

Multimedia:

Trump, Anti-Muslim Rhetoric and the Supreme Court (Good Law/Bad Law, Nov. 2018) [info]
- Follow link for podcast.

Related post:
- Regional Focus: United States - Pt. 1 (30 Nov. 2018)

Tagged Publications. 

11 August 2018

Regional Focus: United States - Pt. 1

News & developments:

"Ahead of Midterms, Trump Hits a Wall in Efforts to Curb Illegal Immigration," Washington Post, 8 Aug. 2018 [text]

"Deported Asylum-Seekers Brought Back on Angry Judge's Orders," NPR, 9 Aug. 2018 [text]

Findings of Credible Fear Plummet Amid Widely Disparate Outcomes by Location and Judge (TRAC, July 2018) [text]
- See also related Immigration Impact blog post and NYT article.

Groups Challenge Trump Administration’s Attacks on Asylum Protections (ACLU, Aug. 2018) [text]

*"Melania Trump’s Parents Become U.S. Citizens, Using ‘Chain Migration’ Trump Hates," New York Times, 9 Aug. 2018 [text]
- See also related explainer on "chain migration."

"Retired Federal Judges Offer to Help Immigration Case Backlog," CNN, 26 July 2018 [text]

"Trump Admin was Warned a Policy Change Could Strengthen MS-13. They Did It Anyway," CNN, 25 July 2018 [text]

Blog posts & commentary:

Applying for a Green Card While Asylum is Pending: Marriage to a U.S. Citizen (The Asylumist, Aug. 2018) [text]

Cities, States Resist — and Assist — Immigration Crackdown in New Ways (Pew's Stateline Blog, Aug. 2018) [text]

DHS Spins the Border Numbers… Again (Just Security Blog, Aug. 2018) [text]

DHS to Restart Deportation Cases for Hundreds of Thousands of Immigrants (Immigration Impact, Aug. 2018) [text]

Grace v. Sessions–Suing to Stop Shutting Down Asylum Claims at the Border (Just Security Blog, Aug. 2018) [text]

The Justice Department Finds 'No Responsive Records' to Support a Trump Speech (Lawfare Blog, July 2018) [text]

Law and Border (Niskanen Center Blog, July 2018) [text]

The State of US Immigration Policy and How to Improve It (Brookings Now Blog, Aug. 2018) [text]

When the Counter-Terrorism Unit Comes Calling (The Asylumist, Aug. 2018) [text]

*UPDATED

Related posts:
- Regional Focus: United States - Pt. 1 (24 July 2018)
- Regional Focus: United States - Pt. 2 (Matter of A-B-) (24 July 2018)

Tagged Publications.