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Revisiting The Application Of Section 7 Of The Charter In Immigration And Refugee Protection, Gerald Heckman
Revisiting The Application Of Section 7 Of The Charter In Immigration And Refugee Protection, Gerald Heckman
Gerald Heckman
Amicus Curaie, Submitted Susan Akram, Susan M. Akram
Amicus Curaie, Submitted Susan Akram, Susan M. Akram
Faculty Scholarship
B Summary of Argument
7. Palestinian refugees fall under a legal regime that is distinct from all other refugees in the world.12 As such, they are covered by a series of special provisions that apply only to them and no other refugees. Their special status resulted from the decisions of the drafters of key international treaties to exclude Palestinian refugees from the mandate of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and the 1954 Convention on the Status of Stateless Persons, and to conditionally exclude them from the benefits of the 1951 Convention on the Status of Refugees. …
Reconciling Expectations With Reality: The Real Id Act's Corroboration Exception For Otherwise Credible Asylum Applicants, Alexandra Lane Reed
Reconciling Expectations With Reality: The Real Id Act's Corroboration Exception For Otherwise Credible Asylum Applicants, Alexandra Lane Reed
Michigan Law Review
The international community finds itself today in the throes of the largest refugee crisis since World War II. As millions of refugees continue to flee violence and persecution at home, the immediate concern is humanitarian, but in the long-term, the important question becomes: What are our obligations to those who cannot return home? U.S. asylum law is designed not only to offer shelter to legitimate refugees, but also to protect the country from those who seek asylum under false pretenses. Lawmakers and policymakers have struggled to calibrate corroboration requirements for asylum claims with the reality that many legitimate asylum seekers …