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Freedom From Detention: The Constitutionality Of Mandatory Detention For Criminal Aliens Seeking To Challenge Grounds For Removal, Darlene Goring Jan 2017

Freedom From Detention: The Constitutionality Of Mandatory Detention For Criminal Aliens Seeking To Challenge Grounds For Removal, Darlene Goring

Journal Articles

The article focuses on the immigration system of the U.S., and mentions constitutionality of mandatory detention for criminal aliens who are seeking to challenge grounds for removal. Topics include U.S. Supreme Court case Demore v. Kim, which deals with mandatory detention during removal proceedings; current statutory framework governing mandatory detention for criminal aliens; and modification of the mandatory detention framework offering protection of the fundamental liberty.


The Role Of Counsel In Canada's Refugee Determinations System: An Empirical Assessment, Sean Rehaag Oct 2015

The Role Of Counsel In Canada's Refugee Determinations System: An Empirical Assessment, Sean Rehaag

Sean Rehaag

This article examines the role of counsel in Canada's refugee determination process through an investigation of over 70,000 refugee decisions from 2005 to 2009. The article demonstrates that counsel is a key factor driving successful outcomes. The article also shows that legal aid programs are increasingly restrictive in funding legal representation for refugee claimants. The author argues that these restrictions put the lives of refugees at risk. The article also demonstrates that claimants represented by immigration consultants are less likely to succeed than claimants represented by lawyers. This, combined with evidence that the immigration consulting industry has not established adequate …


The Tipping Point: The Failure Of Form Over Substance In Addressing The Needs Of Unaccompanied Immigrant Children, Lauren R. Aronson Apr 2015

The Tipping Point: The Failure Of Form Over Substance In Addressing The Needs Of Unaccompanied Immigrant Children, Lauren R. Aronson

Journal Articles

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Teague New Rules Must Apply In Initial-Review Collateral Proceedings: The Teachings Of Padilla, Chaidez, And Martinez, Rebecca Sharpless, Andrew Stanton Jul 2013

Teague New Rules Must Apply In Initial-Review Collateral Proceedings: The Teachings Of Padilla, Chaidez, And Martinez, Rebecca Sharpless, Andrew Stanton

University of Miami Law Review

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In The Breach: Citizenship And Its Approximations, Susan C.B. Coutin Jan 2013

In The Breach: Citizenship And Its Approximations, Susan C.B. Coutin

Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies

To analyze the forms of membership that are created in the gap between formal citizenship and social belonging, this paper takes up three examples of citizenship in the breach: (1) the 1980-1992 Salvadoran civil war, in which human rights abuses perpetrated in El Salvador effectively constituted Salvadoran migrants as stateless persons, though technically they held Salvadoran citizenship; (2) informal U.S. membership claims put forward by longtime U.S. residents who were deported to El Salvador; and (3) the legal or documentary problems that emerge when legal permanent residents, some of whom immigrated to the United States from El Salvador during the …


Chamber Of Commerce Of The United States V. Whiting: Giving The Green Light To States' Broad Use Of Immigration-Related Employer Sanctions, Bianca B. Garcia Jan 2012

Chamber Of Commerce Of The United States V. Whiting: Giving The Green Light To States' Broad Use Of Immigration-Related Employer Sanctions, Bianca B. Garcia

American University Journal of Gender, Social Policy & the Law

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Citizenship And Marriage In A Globalizing World: Multicultural Families And Monocultural Nationality Laws In Korea And Japan, Erin Aeran Chung, Daisy Kim Jan 2012

Citizenship And Marriage In A Globalizing World: Multicultural Families And Monocultural Nationality Laws In Korea And Japan, Erin Aeran Chung, Daisy Kim

Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies

This Article analyzes how individual and local attempts to address low fertility rates in Korea and Japan have prompted unprecedented reforms in monocultural nationality laws. Korea and Japan confront rapidly declining working-age population projections; yet, they have prohibited the immigration of unskilled workers, until recently in Korea's case, on the claim that their admission would threaten social cohesion. Over the past two decades, both countries have made only incremental reforms to their immigration policies that fall short of alleviating labor shortages and the fiscal burdens of maintaining a large elderly population. Instead, prompted by the growth of so-called multicultural families …


Transnational Adoption And European Immigration Politics: Producing The National Body In Sweden, Barbara Yngvesson Jan 2012

Transnational Adoption And European Immigration Politics: Producing The National Body In Sweden, Barbara Yngvesson

Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies

This article explores the role of transnational adoption in the production of a multicultural but Swedish national body during the second half of the twentieth and the first decade of the twenty-first century, when Sweden became a multiethnic, multicultural, and racially divided country. I examine the development of international adoption policies in the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s, emphasizing the erasure of the child's connection to a preadoptive past, even as the child's cultural difference was celebrated in adopting nations. In Sweden, which in the late 1970s and early 1980s had the world's highest adoption ratio (number of transnational adoptions per …


Adjudicating The Intersection Of Marital Immigration, Domestic Violence, And Spousal Murder: China-Taiwan Marriages And Competing Legal Domains, Sara L. Friedman Jan 2012

Adjudicating The Intersection Of Marital Immigration, Domestic Violence, And Spousal Murder: China-Taiwan Marriages And Competing Legal Domains, Sara L. Friedman

Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies

Cross-border marriages and other forms of family reunification dominate officially recognized migratory flows around the world today, and they offer the most widely recognized path to naturalized citizenship in destination countries. At the same time, however, transnational marriages may also rest on shaky foundations precisely because immigrant spouses depend on their citizen partner for legal status. When marriages fail due to domestic violence, they expose the incompatibility of different legal domains organized around domestic violence prevention and immigration regulation. This Article examines the legal conflicts that emerged in response to a recent case in Taiwan involving an immigrant wife from …


The Role Of Counsel In Canada's Refugee Determinations System: An Empirical Assessment, Sean Rehaag Apr 2011

The Role Of Counsel In Canada's Refugee Determinations System: An Empirical Assessment, Sean Rehaag

Osgoode Hall Law Journal

This article examines the role of counsel in Canada's refugee determination process through an investigation of over 70,000 refugee decisions from 2005 to 2009. The article demonstrates that counsel is a key factor driving successful outcomes. The article also shows that legal aid programs are increasingly restrictive in funding legal representation for refugee claimants. The author argues that these restrictions put the lives of refugees at risk. The article also demonstrates that claimants represented by immigration consultants are less likely to succeed than claimants represented by lawyers. This, combined with evidence that the immigration consulting industry has not established adequate …


International Commerce And Undocumented Workers: Using Trade To Secure Labor Rights, Laura Jakubowski Jul 2007

International Commerce And Undocumented Workers: Using Trade To Secure Labor Rights, Laura Jakubowski

Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies

This article explores the rights of illegal immigrants and undocumented workers throughout the world. International treaties have attempted to deal with the rights of undocumented workers, but few countries have been willing to sign on to the treaties. This article argues that undocumented workers should have more expansive rights, and that international trade agreements and institutions should be used where human rights and domestic solutions have failed to guarantee the rights of the most vulnerable workers.