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Innovative strategies for the reception of asylum seekers and refugees in European cities: multi-level governance, multi-sector urban networks and local engagement

Comparative Migration Studies, 2020
Cities are taking a prominent role in solving global challenges, with a ‘new localism’ inviting a reorientation of power from nation-states downwards, outwards and globally.
Caroline Oliver, Rianne Dekker, Karin Geuijen, Jacqueline Broadhead   +3 more
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Group fairness in dynamic refugee assignment [PDF]

arXiv, 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  

There is an elephant in the room: Towards a critique on the use of fairness in biometrics [PDF]

arXiv, 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  

Outcome-Driven Dynamic Refugee Assignment with Allocation Balancing [PDF]

, 2020
This study proposes two new dynamic assignment algorithms to match refugees and asylum seekers to geographic localities within a host country. The first, currently implemented in a multi-year randomized control trial in Switzerland, seeks to maximize the average predicted employment level (or any measured outcome of interest) of refugees through a ...
arxiv   +1 more source

What lies beneath: exploring links between asylum policy and hate crime in the UK [PDF]

, 2010
This paper explores the link between increasing incidents of hate crime and the asylum policy of successive British governments with its central emphasis on deterrence.
A Dummett, A Harmit, Administrator, B Bowling, B Perry, British Crime Survey, C Coole, Children’s Commissioner, Crown Prosecution Service, D Coleman, D Frost, D Gadd, D Kahan, DP Green, E Bleich, E Goffman, F Anthias, G Cornelisse, G Mason, G Moon, H Hurd, H O’Nions, Helen O’Nions, Home Office, Human Rights First, Human Rights First, I Dale, ICAR (Information centre about asylum seekers and refugees), Independent Asylum Commission, J Banks, L Dixon, L Fekete, L Ray, M Wetherell, N Hall, O Fiss, O Parker, OG Bailey, OSCE, P Aspinall, P Iganksi, P Tuitt, R Capdevila, R Grillo, R Karapin, R Karapin, R Sibbitt, Refugee Action, Refugee Action, S Goodman, Scottish Executive, T Bjorgo, T Bjorgo, T Bjorgo, T Cantle, T Hayter, T Veenkamp, TA Dijk Van, TA Dijk Van, UNHCR   +59 more
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Reimagining Asylum: Religious Narratives and the Moral Obligation to the Asylum Seeker

Refuge, 2013
The narrative that grounds the asylum policy of the United States portrays asylum seekers as passive objects of external forces. This narrative emerges from the complex interplay of exceptionality and victimization that characterizes the legal status and
Silas W. Allard
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Asylum Proceedings in the Czech Republic During the Migration Crisis

Journal of Legal Studies, 2020
The article deals with the fundamental problems that emerged on the territory of the Czech Republic during the implementation of the asylum procedure throughout the migration crisis in the years 2015 to 2019.
Černý Petr
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Learning under random distributional shifts [PDF]

arXiv, 2023
Many existing approaches for generating predictions in settings with distribution shift model distribution shifts as adversarial or low-rank in suitable representations. In various real-world settings, however, we might expect shifts to arise through the superposition of many small and random changes in the population and environment. Thus, we consider
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Forecasting asylum-related migration flows with machine learning and data at scale [PDF]

, 2020
The effects of the so-called "refugee crisis" of 2015-16 continue to dominate the political agenda in Europe. Migration flows were sudden and unexpected, leaving governments unprepared and exposing significant shortcomings in the field of migration forecasting.
arxiv   +1 more source

Murder at the Asylum [PDF]

Math. Gaz. 109 (2025) 109-118, 2018
I describe a puzzle I wrote for the 2018 MIT Mystery Hunt which introduced new types of people in logic puzzles. I discuss the puzzle itself, the solution, and the mathematics behind it.
arxiv   +1 more source