Refugee Roulette: Disparities in Asylum Adjudication and Proposals for Reform Contributor(s): Schrag, Philip G. (Author), Schoenholtz, Andrew I. (Author), Ramji-Nogales, Jaya (Author) |
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ISBN: 081474074X ISBN-13: 9780814740743 Publisher: New York University Press OUR PRICE: $88.11 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: September 2009 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Law | Emigration & Immigration - Law | Courts - General - Political Science | Law Enforcement |
Dewey: 342.730 |
LCCN: 2009014685 |
Physical Information: 1.06" H x 6.32" W x 9.26" (1.37 lbs) 354 pages |
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Publisher Description: Through the Refugee Act of 1980, the United States offers the prospect of safety to people who flee to America to escape rape, torture, and even death in their native countries. In order to be granted asylum, however, an applicant must prove to an asylum officer or immigration judge that she has a well-founded fear of persecution in her homeland. The chance of winning asylum should have little if anything to do with the personality of the official to whom a case is randomly assigned, but in a ground-breaking and shocking study, Jaya Ramji-Nogales, Andrew I. Schoenholtz, and Philip G. Schrag learned that life-or-death asylum decisions are too frequently influenced by random factors relating to the decision makers. In many cases, the most important moment in an asylum case is the instant in which a clerk randomly assigns the application to an adjudicator. The system, in its current state, is like a game of chance. |
Contributor Bio(s): Ramji-Nogales, Jaya: - Jaya Ramji-Nogales is Associate Professor of Law and Co-Director of the Institute for International Law and Public Policy at Temple University's Beasley School of Law. Schrag, Philip G.: - Philip G. Schrag is the Delaney Family Professor of Public Interest Law and Director of the Center for Applied Legal Studies at Georgetown University Law Center. Schoenholtz, Andrew I.: - Andrew I. Schoenholtz is Visiting Professor, Director of the Human Rights Institute, and Director of the Center for Applied Legal Studies at Georgetown University Law Center. He is Deputy Director of the Institute for the Study of International Migration at Georgetown University School of Foreign Service.
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