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New Pubs. on Asylum Decisions/U.S., Children in Armed Conflict, Good Governance/Africa, IDPs/Sri Lanka & Uganda, Post-Conflict Reconstruction via Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog September 26th, 2007 at 15:00

Asylum Disparities Persist, Regardless of Court Location and Nationality (TRAC, Sept. 2007) [text] The building blocks of sustainable peace: The views of internally displaced people in Northern Uganda, Oxfam Briefing Paper 106 (Sept. 2007) [text] Civilians in the way of conflict: Displaced people in Sri Lanka (IDMC, Sept. 2007) [text]Getting the Policies Right: The Prioritization and Sequencing...
In Africa, Sri Lanka, Publications, Government, Uganda, children, asylum, internally displaced persons, armed conflict, peace efforts, legal decisions, reconstruction

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, judges, decisions on refugee status, asylum, legal decisions
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