Asylum in United States
Asylum Definition
An institution for the protection or relief of the unfortunate, as an asylum for the poor, for the deaf and dumb, or for the insane. Webster. In International Law. Refuge to a fugitive from justice. In old English Law. A sanctuary. (q. v.)
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An institution for the protection or relief of the unfortunate, as an asylum for the poor, for the deaf and dumb, or for the insane. Webster. In International Law. Refuge to a fugitive from justice. In old English Law. A sanctuary. (q. v.)
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Asylum Clock in Immigration Law
In this area of law, Asylum Clock means: The number of days elapsed since the filing of an asylum application, not including any delays in the proceeding caused by the alien. Certain asylum applicants are eligible to receive employment authorization from the Department of Homeland Security after the asylum clock reaches 180 days.
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See Also
Extraterritoriality; Humanitarian Intervention and Relief; Human Rights; Immigration; Nativism; Reciprocity; Refugee Policies.
Aggravation; Aliens; Homeland Security Department; Felony; Refugees.
Further Reading (Books)
Anker, Deborah E. Law of Asylum in the United States. 3d ed. Boston, 1999. The standard work written for lawyers; very detailed text and heavily footnoted.
Bessiouni, M. Cherif. International Extradition: United States Law and Practice. 3d ed. Dobbs Ferry, N.Y., 1996. A substantial work that, like Vialet, makes the argument that asylum and refugee regimes must be seen in the context of reducing immigration.
Bolesta-Koziebrodzki, Léopold. Le Droit d’Asile. Leiden, 1962. An older work, useful for a non-U.S. perspective and valuable for Latin America.
Brownlie, Ian. Principles of Public International Law. 5th ed. Oxford, 1998. A manageable introduction by an authoritative scholar and practitioner before the bar of the International Court of Justice.
Columbey, Jean-Pierre, ed. Collection of International Instruments and Other Legal Texts Concerning Refugees and Displaced Persons. 2 vols. Geneva, 1995. A publication of Office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, Division of International Protection; volume 1 contains “Universal Instruments”; volume 2 deals inter alia with Latin America.
Dunne, Michael. “American Judicial Internationalism in the Twentieth Century.” Proceedings of the American Society of International Law 90 (December 1996): 148_155. Discusses the work of David Forsythe, Louis Henkin, and Natalie Kaufman.
Ermacora, Felix, Manfred Nowak, and Hannes Tretter, eds. International Human Rights: Documents and Introductory Notes. Vienna, 1993. The comparative materials are intelligently contextualized with excellent references.
Further Reading (Books 2)
Frey, Linda S., and Marsha L Frey. The History of Diplomatic Immunity. Columbus, Ohio, 1999. Set to become the standard account.
Goodwin-Gill, Guy S. The Refugee in International Law. 2d ed. Oxford, 1996. The detailed and authoritative starting point for the subject, written by a former member of the UNHCR. The text is wide-ranging and fully referenced; indispensable for the world picture.
Grahl-Madsen, Atle. Territorial Asylum. London, Rome, and New York, 1980. Half this book, by a contemporary leader in the field, is documentation pleading for a convention on asylum comparable to the 1951 Refugee Convention.
Hailbronner, Kay. Immigration and Asylum Law and Policy of the European Union. The Hague, London, and Boston, 2000. An exhaustive work that deals with refugees and asylum-seekers.
Hall, William Edward. A Treatise on International Law. 8th ed. Edited by A. Pearce Higgins. London, 1924. A classic, relatively brief work.
Harvey, Colin. Seeking Asylum in the UK: Problems and Prospects. London and Dublin, 2000. Contextualizes somewhat dated “critical legal theory” and useful for European developments, political and legal.
Hathaway, James C. The Law of Refugee Status. Toronto, 1991. Monograph on the 1951 Refugee Convention by an authority.
Hutchinson, E. P. Legislative History of American Immigration Policy, 1798_1965. Philadelphia, 1981. The classic and indispensable account.
Further Reading (Articles)
Hyde, Charles Cheney. International Law Chiefly as Interpreted and Applied by the United States. 2d rev. ed. 3 vols. Boston, 1945. First published in 1922, this work by an eminent international lawyer reveals how little interwar crisis affected U.S. immigration policy and practice.
Jennings, Robert, and Arthur Watts, eds. Oppenheim’s International Law. 9th ed. London and New York, 1996. In this classic work, volume 1 examines asylum and refugees from a very wide international perspective with voluminous references.
LeBlanc, Lawrence J. The United States and the Genocide Convention. Durham, N.C., and London, 1991. Deals in chapters 8 and 9 with the “reserving” of international treaties by the Senate.
Morgenstern, Felice. “Extra-territorial’ Asylum.” British Year Book
of International Law 25 (1948): 236_261. The first in a trio of essays discussing asylum from an international, comparative perspective. See also “The Right of Asylum,” British Year Book of International Law 26 (1949): 327_357; and “Diplomatic Asylum,” Law Quarterly Review 67 (July 1951): 362_382.
Nicholson, Frances, and Patrick Twomey, eds. Refugee Rights and Realities: Evolving International Concepts and Regimes. Cambridge, 1999.
Ronning, C. Neale. Diplomatic Asylum: Legal Norms and Political Reality in Latin American Relations. The Hague, 1965. The appendices and bibliography are useful in a study that puts the Columbia-Peru Asylum Case in context and also covers U.S. practice.
Skran, Claudena M. Refugees in Inter-War Europe: The Emergence of a Regime. Oxford, 1995. Places the Evian conference of 1938 in the larger picture of U.S. interwar policy.
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United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. The State of the World’s Refugees, 2000: Fifty Years of Humanitarian Action. Oxford, 2000. This important serial provides the annual monitoring of the implementation of the 1951 Refugee Convention and 1967 Protocol; contains factual information and statistics together with essays by regions, periods, and topics.
U.S. Committee for Refugees. World Refugee Survey. This annual survey is the most outstanding of relevant unofficial publications and presents the global picture.
U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service. Statistical Yearbook. Annual review that contains informative and clear essays on the published data.
Vialet, Joyce. “A Brief History of U.S. Immigration Policy.” 91-141 EPW (25 Jan. 1991): 2.
Asylum, Encyclopedia of Latin American History and Culture; January 1, 2008
Optimal Asylum, Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law; November 1, 2013; Ray, Shalini Bhargava
Asylum Tide Hits a High with Just One in Eight Expelled, Daily Mail (London); August 31, 2002; Hickley, Matthew
ASYLUM FIGURES FALL IN 2010 TO ALMOST HALF THEIR 2001 LEVELS. States News Service; March 27, 2011
Asylum Seekers Living in the Australian Community: A Casework and Reception Approach, Asylum Seeker Project, Hotham Mission, Melbourne, Refuge; March 1, 2004; Mitchell, Grant Kirsner, Sara
asylum, The Herald; January 15, 2000; Betty Kirkpatrick
Asylum-seekers’ housing bill costs the taxpayer [pounds]439m a year, The Herald; July 7, 2005; MICHAEL SETTLE CHIEF UK POLITICAL CORRESPONDENT
Asylum figures fall in 2010 to almost half their 2001 levels, UNHCR Report. Kuwait News Agency (KUNA); March 28, 2011
ASYLUM SEEKERS IN COVENTRY SPECIAL REPORT: The Refugees Who Live in Hope of a Safer New Life in Our City; THOUSANDS OF MILES FROM THEIR HOME COUNTRIES THE PEOPLE SEEKING ASYLUM FACE POVERTY, INTIMIDATION AND A LENGTHY LEGAL PROCESS TO FIND SAFETY, Coventry Evening Telegraph (England); July 8, 2002
Asylum Seekers: The Myths a Funny Old Week, Sunday Mail (Glasgow, Scotland); September 9, 2001
Asylum Seekers Have More to Offer at Home; Pathetic Invasion of an Artist’s Life, Daily Mail (London); July 29, 2002
ASYLUM UK; Official OECD Report: Britain Takes 1 in 5 of the Western World’s Asylum Seekers- More Than Any Other Country, Including the U.S, Daily Mail (London); January 22, 2004
ASYLUM: SINGLE PROCEDURE WITH HIGHER STANDARDS OF PROTECTION, US Fed News Service, Including US State News; March 20, 2011
Asylum System under Strain, States News Service; October 11, 2013
Asylum Seekers Arriving in UK Up 20% Last Year, Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales); March 1, 2003
ASYLUM POLICY: MORE TRUST THROUGH MORE SOLIDARITY BETWEEN EU MEMBER STATES. States News Service; December 2, 2011
ASYLUM POLICY: LESS TALK, MORE SOLIDARITY. States News Service; December 2, 2011
Asylum seekers move north; Glasgow provides accommodation for up to 600 families to ease pressure in South of England, The Herald; March 7, 2000; Jennifer Cunningham
Asylum families kept apart, The Irish Times; June 24, 2005
ASYLUM: A SINGLE PROCEDURE WITH HIGHER STANDARDS OF PROTECTION. States News Service; March 17, 2011
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Asylum Clock in Immigration Law
In this area of law, Asylum Clock means: The number of days elapsed since the filing of an asylum application, not including any delays in the proceeding caused by the alien. Certain asylum applicants are eligible to receive employment authorization from the Department of Homeland Security after the asylum clock reaches 180 days.
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- Information about Asylum in the Gale Encyclopedia of American Law.
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