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Lives in the Balance

Asylum Adjudication by the Department of Homeland Security
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* "Chock-full of insights and never-before-seen research... Compelling and well-timed... A must-read." - Shoba Sivaprasad Wadhia, Center for Immigrants' Rights, The Pennsylvania State University "A must-read... Often surprising, and always illuminating... Eminently readable." - Karen Musalo, U.C. Hastings College of Law
List of Figures and Tables Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Seeking Refuge 2. The Applicants and the Adjudicators 3. The One-Year Filing Deadline 4. Timeliness 5. The Rejections 6. Four Eras of Asylum Adjudication: Grant Rates over Time 7. Perceptions about the Asylum Seekers 8. Variations across the Regional Asylum Offices 9. Disparities within Asylum Offices 10. The Asylum Officers 11. Conclusions Appendix: Catchment Areas of the Eight Regional Asylum Offices Notes Index About the Authors
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