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Anti-Trafficking Review, 2023 This article presents a case study of how COVID-19 has increased the precarity and risks of labour exploitation for vulnerable populations. Looking at the situation of LGBTQ+ Venezuelan asylum seekers in Brazil during COVID-19, it examines how the ...
Yvonne Su
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Ethics and exclusion: representations of sovereignty in Australia’s approach to asylum-seekers [PDF]
, 2006 From 2001, the Australian government has justified a hard-line approach to asylum-seekers on the basis of the need to preserve its sovereignty. This article critically evaluates this justification, arguing that the conception of sovereignty as the ‘right
Gelber, Katherine, McDonald, Matt
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Alientating Human from Right : U.S. and UK Non-Compliance with Asylum Obligations Under International Human Rights Law [PDF]
, 2001 Snapshot of the state of asylum seekers\u27 rights in the United States and the UK at the time it was written. It provides an overview of U.S. and UK obligations to asylum seekers under international human rights law.
Nazarova, Inna
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Refugees, Asylum Seekers and Policy in Europe [PDF]
, 2004 The number of refugees worldwide is now 12 million, up from 3 million in the early 1970s. And the number seeking asylum in the developed world has increased tenfold, from about 50,000 per annum to half a million over the same period. Governments and international agencies have grappled with the twin problems of providing adequate humanitarian ...
Timothy J. Hatton, Jeffrey G. Williamson
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Bias, Consistency, and Partisanship in U.S. Asylum Cases: A Machine Learning Analysis of Extraneous Factors in Immigration Court Decisions [PDF]
, 2023 In this study, we introduce a novel two-pronged scoring system to measure individual and systemic bias in immigration courts under the U.S. Executive Office of Immigration Review (EOIR). We analyze nearly 6 million immigration court proceedings and 228 case features to build on prior research showing that U.S.
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Disrupting State Spaces: Asylum Seekers in Australia’s Offshore Detention Centres
Social Sciences, 2021 The Australian government has spent over a billion dollars a year on managing offshore detention (Budget 2018–2019). Central to this offshore management was the transference and mandatory detention of asylum seekers in facilities that sit outside ...
Rachel Sharples
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An Ethnographic Study of Deaf Refugees Seeking Asylum in Finland
Societies, 2019 Deaf asylum seekers are a marginalized group of people in refugee and forced migration studies. The aim of this paper is to explore and highlight the experiences of deaf asylum seekers in the asylum procedure in Finland.
Nina Sivunen
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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.
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Conflict and Health, 2022 Background Forced migrants fleeing conflict and violence face a high risk of mental health problems due to experiences before displacement, perilous journeys, and conditions in the new host societies.
Charlotta van Eggermont Arwidson +4 more
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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.
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