Lives in the Balance : : Asylum Adjudication by the Department of Homeland Security /

Lives in the Balance : : Asylum Adjudication by the Department of Homeland Security / / Philip G. Schrag, Jaya Ramji-Nogales, Andrew I. Schoenholtz.

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...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter New York University Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015
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Schrag, Philip G.,
Ramji-Nogales, Jaya,
Schoenholtz, Andrew I.,
Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2014]
©2014
Year of Publication:2014
Language:English
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Figures and Tables
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • 1. Seeking Refuge
  • 2. The Applicants and the Adjudicators
  • 3. The One-Year Filing Deadline
  • 4. Timeliness
  • 5. The Rejections
  • 6. Four Eras of Asylum Adjudication: Grant Rates over Time
  • 7. Perceptions about the Asylum Seekers
  • 8. Variations across the Regional Asylum Offices
  • 9. Disparities within Asylum Offices
  • 10. The Asylum Officers
  • 11. Conclusions
  • Appendix
  • Notes
  • Index
  • About the Authors

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