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Upcoming Events: January & February 2009 via Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog December 23rd, 2008 at 15:56

8th International Association of Refugee Law Judges World Conference, 28-30 January 2009, Cape Town [draft programme] - Theme is "Where to now: Charting the future course of international protection." Environmental Change and Migration: Evidence and Developing Norms for Response, 8-9 January 2009, Oxford [info.] RSC Short Course on Psychosocial Responses to Conflict and Forced Migration, 7-8...
In Environment, meetings, Research, humanitarian assistance, international refugee law, educational programmes, psycho-social problems, statelessness, judges

U.S. asylum decisions via Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog May 31st, 2007 at 13:20

The New York Times reported today about "big disparities" that exist in the "judging of asylum cases" in the U.S. The article discusses the findings of a study undertaken by three law professors that examined 140,000 decisions made by 225 immigration judges. They determined that the "chance of winning asylum was strongly affected by whether or not the applicant had legal representation, by the...
In United States, asylum, legal decisions, decisions on refugee status, judges
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