Holmes and Keith look at how asylum policies and asylum giving have changed in response to 9/11 and compare them to overall changes in the system. They point to specific factors that have shaped the group of asylum applicants that make it to court.
The study is qualitative and data is based on information from the Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR) (432). The authors designed a logit model to show the relation between factors including legal representation, level of democracy, language, state position on terrorism, presence of Al Qaeda and asylum grants (433).
The authors found that foreign policy, related to the Cold War in the past and to terrorism today, has a strong influence on asylum grants (436). They explain that the IIRIRA 1996 and Real ID Act of 2005 both
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Similarly, the changes in law affect the lives of people it applies to. The IIRIRA and the Real ID Act have made it more difficult for refugees to achieve asylum by adding more specific factors and proof for qualification (431). Many people are not getting asylum as needed because the United States is more focused on state security and foreign relations instead of humanitarianism and justice. The State response is similar to the current issues of increasing international terrorist activity and refugee displacement. After the Paris attacks, the United States found another reason to tighten its immigration policies. Many US states say they will close their doors to refugees based on their country or religion. How will these recent events change asylum policy and process? Definitely, the process of refugee asylum and resettlement is much slower because of the delay in States finding their positions. More restrictions may also decrease the number of asylum applicants and recipients again. How will this affect both domestic and international attitudes and community relations with
This report examines that the impacts of immigration detention and violating of human rights with the mental health care of asylum seekers. In the recent years, increased number of illegal immigrants arriving by boat in Australia. This raises key issues concerning about mental health of asylum-seekers, especially for detained immigrants. Research shows that Australia currently own around 13,000 refugees per annum, under the Refugee Convention (1951), Australia has obligation to evaluate refugee claims, but it processes only 2.2% of them made to 44 industrialised countries (p.315).
The IRPA is a Federal legislation that outlines the current government’s position and approach to issues pertinent to the intake, protection, and settlement of immigrants and refugees. Considering the broad scope of this policy, my discussion will focus only on refugees. This paper will explore the influence of political ideology that lead to the recent IRPA policy changes following a Syrian toddler’s death in September, 2015, whose family was struggling to seek refuge in a safe country. I will analyse the congruence of the intent of the IRPA with its implementation, and whether the policy making approach is inclusive or not. Recommendations suggested in conclusion, will focus on improving the content and implementation of the Immigration and Refugee Policy, as well as making the policy making process more inclusive and
Political unrest and local war happens around the world all the time. Many people live in a dangerous situation and suffered from violence. Hence, large amount of asylum seeker undertakes a huge perilous, try to cross the ocean and arrive Australia. To deal with this issue, Australian government enacted mandatory detention policy and offshore processing policy, these policies become highly contentious in the community with many arguments and criticisms. This report will focus on the nature and purpose of these immigration policies and the impact towards the asylum seeker as well as the criticism form international. To propose some advice about how the future policies should be framed.
Petitioner, Tarek Dali, entered the United States on or about December 23, 2010, seeking refuge from political persecution he suffered at the hands of the Tunisian government. (cite). He initially sought asylum relief on November 14, 2011; however, the Department of Homeland Security’s (hereinafter “DHS”) asylum office denied his application on January 17, 2013. (cite). On February 11, 2013, the DHS filed a notice to appear and Mr. Dali was subsequently placed in removal proceedings. (cite). Mr. Dali appeared before the immigration court on November 10, 2014, where he renewed his application for asylum relief. The immigration judge (hereinafter “IJ”) held a hearing on the matter and denied Dali’s application for asylum. (cite). The IJ found that in respects to the elements of a refugee, Mr. Dali established that for all the harms he alleged, the government was either responsible for the persecution or abdicated to the actions of the private actors, the harms Mr. Dali suffered were on account of his political opinion, but the harms Mr. Dali suffered in Tunisia did not rise to the level persecution. Therefore, Mr. Dali was not a refugee and consequently not entitled to Asylum.
Australia’s policies in regard to asylum seekers and refugee processing, are viewed as very controversial, and often inhumane by the international community (Lock, Quenault & Tomlinson 2002, p.37). To discuss this policy, I will apply an external analysis. In order to decide whether this policy is seen as good or bad, through a social, economic and human rights perspective.
More than any country in the world, the United States has been a haven for refugees fleeing religious and political persecution in their home countries. Linked forever to the phrase inscribed on the Statue of Liberty, "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free," the United States, in the eyes of persecuted people throughout the world, has been idealized as a land of freedom and new beginnings. However, the changing face of refugees seeking asylum in the United States in the past several decades has exposed stark gaps in the legal, administrative, and social treatment of
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Bureaucratic discretion – also known as “bureaucratic disentitlement” – is often written into a policy with the explicit intent of restricting access to benefits (Heinrich, 2016). Inconsistent communication, duplicated document requests, and the lack of designated case workers suggest that the policy was not designed with optimum effectiveness in mind. Additionally, one of the major components of the SIV application process required an applicant to establish that they are experiencing an ongoing serious threat because of their employment with the United States Government. In addition, the threat had to be corroborated through a risk assessment conducted by the Chief of Mission or a designee of the Chief of Mission (Congress, 2008). Requiring an individual to provide evidence that their life is in danger – and that the danger is due to their employment with the U.S. government and not due to other factors – before accepting their application produces a perverse incentive for an individual to wait to seek asylum until their situation becomes the most precarious. As many applicants found out, even when there was evidence of a substantial threat, the byzantine application process did not grant them refugee status before harm befell them and their families (Oliver, 2014; Johnson, 2013). If maximum take-up of the program was the desired outcome, the policy should have been designed to reduce
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The issue of Asylum seekers has been considered as one of the controversial issues in Australia due to the implementation of the Federal governments’ harsh and stringent policy against boat refugees, who flee from their countries because of violence or persecution. It is stated that this hard line approach aims to curb the influx of illegal immigrants thereby making Australian Immigration System credible and strong (Anderson & Iggulden 2016). According to Refugee Convention 1954, Australia, a signatory under United Nation(UN) Refugee Agency, is regarded as one of the generous country in dealing with the protection and rights of refugees and has created a meritorious history of accepting asylum seekers from all over the world (Refugee
In many cases individuals are label as refugees after being permitted to stay in the United States after applying for admission. Most of these immigrants have fled due of the fear of persecution due to their race, social clique, political officially, religion, or national origin. The admission of refugees turns on numerous factors, such as the degree of risk they face, membership in a group that is of special concern to the United States (designated yearly by the President of the United States and Congress), and whether or not they have family members in the United States. (American Immigration Council, 2016) After the events of September 11,2001, the number of approved admissions fell due to the increase in the complexity of security checks. The Department of Homeland Security determined the total amount of refugees’ admission permitted into the United States for 2016 was approximately 85,000. For those that individuals that reach the United Stated before applying for refugee; there is option for them to seek out asylum within the country. The individual must declare that they are seeking asylum at any port of entry or within one year after arriving in the United States. Currently, the immigration policies don’t limit the number of individuals who are granted
In this paper, I will be discussing the recent political issue about the ban imposed on refugees from the Muslim-dominant nations into the United States. The current president of the United States, Donald Trump, on the 27th of January 2017 issued an executive order banning immigrants from seven countries into the United States. The issue that informed the ban was the security threat that the immigrants posed to the United States because most terrorist groups have an Islamic background. While this move by the president might have been backed with the best of intentions from the top of the government, it stirred up a lot of commotion from the citizens and humanitarian organizations questioning the morality and the justification of the order.
My proposal focuses on the Syrian refugee crisis in the United States. Specifically, my proposal will deal with American attitudes towards refugees fleeing their country and what we could do better to help them adapt to this country. This topic is important in today’s society because with the election of Donald J. Trump, the rise of xenophobia and islamophobia has occurred.
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