Lives in the balance : asylum adjudication by the Department of Homeland Security

Lives in the balance asylum adjudication by the Department of Homeland Security

"Although Americans generally think that the U.S. Department of Homeland Security is focused only on preventing terrorism, one office within that agency has a humanitarian mission. Its Asylum Office adjudicates applications from people fleeing persecution in their homelands. Lives in the Balanc...

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1. Verfasser: Schoenholtz, Andrew Ian (VerfasserIn)
Weitere Verfasser: Schrag, Philip G. (VerfasserIn), Ramji-Nogales, Jaya (VerfasserIn)
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Sprache:eng
Veröffentlicht: New York u.a. New York Univ. Press 2014
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United States. > Geschichte 2000-2014 > LAW / General > POLITICAL SCIENCE / General > Politik > Asylum, Right of > Political refugees > Legal status, laws, etc. > Government policy > Administrative procedure > Emigration and immigration law > Asylverfahren > Asylrecht > USA
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Zusammenfassung:"Although Americans generally think that the U.S. Department of Homeland Security is focused only on preventing terrorism, one office within that agency has a humanitarian mission. Its Asylum Office adjudicates applications from people fleeing persecution in their homelands. Lives in the Balance is a careful empirical analysis of how Homeland Security decided these asylum cases over a recent fourteen-year period. Day in and day out, asylum officers make decisions with life-or-death consequences: determining which applicants are telling the truth and are at risk of persecution in their home countries, and which are ineligible for refugee status in America.
Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references and index
Beschreibung:XV, 271 S.
graph. Darst., Kt.
ISBN:9780814708767
978-0-8147-0876-7