Immigration Judges and U.S. Asylum Policy

✍ Scribed by Banks Miller; Linda Camp Keith; Jennifer S. Holmes

• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Year: 2014
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 247
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Immigration Judges and U.S. Asylum Policy investigates hundreds of thousands of U.S. asylum cases with theoretical sophistication and empirical rigor, finding that immigration judges tend to assess legally relevant facts objectively while their decisions may be subjectively influenced by extralegal facts.

Immigration Judges and U.S. Asylum Policy investigates hundreds of thousands of U.S. asylum cases with theoretical sophistication and empirical rigor, finding that immigration judges tend to assess legally relevant facts objectively while their decisions may be subjectively influenced by extralegal facts.

✦ Table of Contents

CONTENTS
Chapter 1. Introduction
Chapter 2. Creating a Dataset
Chapter 3. A Cognitive Approach to IJ Decision Making
Chapter 4. Local Conditions and IJ Decision Making
Chapter 5. Appealing to the Board of Immigration Appeals
Chapter 6. Th e Policy Gap and Asylum Outcomes
Chapter 7. IJs and Reform of the U.S. Asylum System
Notes
References
Index
Acknowledgments