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Networking for Change: The Development of the European Network on Statelessness and Perspectives on Developing Other Regional and Global Statelessness Coalitions

open access: yesTilburg Law Review, 2014
Until recently, there was no regional civil society alliance dedicated exclusively to addressing statelessness. This changed with the advent of the European Network on Statelessness (ENS), which has attracted fifty non-governmental organization (NGOs ...
Chris Nash
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“When you leave your country, this is what you’re in for”: experiences of structural, legal, and gender-based violence among asylum-seeking women at the Mexico-U.S. border

open access: yesBMC Public Health, 2023
Background Recent U.S. immigration policy has increasingly focused on asylum deterrence and has been used extensively to rapidly deport and deter asylum-seekers, leaving thousands of would-be asylum-seekers waiting indefinitely in Mexican border cities ...
Kaylee Ramage   +7 more
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Mental health services for asylum seekers and refugees: a snapshot

open access: yesBJPsych International, 2016
As fellow human beings uproot their lives in search of protection, and for those who survive to reach European shores, many countries are faced with an unprecedented, highly complex challenge of managing huge and immediate need.
Katy Briffa
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There is an elephant in the room: Towards a critique on the use of fairness in biometrics [PDF]

open access: yesarXiv, 2021
In 2019, the UK's Immigration and Asylum Chamber of the Upper Tribunal dismissed an asylum appeal basing the decision on the output of a biometric system, alongside other discrepancies. The fingerprints of the asylum seeker were found in a biometric database which contradicted the appellant's account.
arxiv  

When public opinion drives national asylum policymaking: The case of Kurdish asylum seekers in Japan

open access: yesAsia & the Pacific Policy Studies, 2020
How does public opinion influence national asylum policymaking? This article analyses the change in Japan's asylum policy towards Kurdish asylum seekers from Turkey in the mid‐2000s.
Hirotaka Fujibayashi
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Comparative Perspectives of Constitutional Asylum in France, Italy and Germany: Requiescat in Pace? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
Most countries provide asylum through domestic legislation, such as a statute incorporating the 1951 Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees. France, Italy, and Germany stand out as three of very few European countries specifically to guarantee a ...
Lambert, H.   +2 more
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Asylum [PDF]

open access: yesTransit, 2013
Translation of Heribert Prantl, "Asyl," in Das neue Deutschland. Von Migration und Vielfalt, ed. Özkan Ezli and Gisela Staupe (Konstanz: Konstanz University Press, 2014).
Prantl, Heribert, Orich, Annika
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Group fairness in dynamic refugee assignment [PDF]

open access: yesarXiv, 2023
Ensuring that refugees and asylum seekers thrive (e.g., find employment) in their host countries is a profound humanitarian goal, and a primary driver of employment is the geographic location within a host country to which the refugee or asylum seeker is assigned.
arxiv  

Unmasking deviance: the visual construction of asylum seekers and refugees [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
This paper explores the visual representation of asylum seekers and refugees delineating how English newspaper imagery constructs such groups as deviant and dangerous.
Banks, James
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Retrospective analysis of the Special Olympics Health Promotion database for nutrition-specific variables

open access: yesHeliyon, 2021
Background: Studies have shown that individuals with intellectual disabilities (ID) exhibit a high prevalence of obesity and poor-quality diet. The population of individuals with ID include athletes that participate in Special Olympics.
Kaneen Gomez-Hixson   +2 more
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