Year
2015
Publisher
Ohio University Press
Language
English
ISBN
978-0-82142-138-3
Last Update
03-Sep-2024
Keywords
Political Science ; Law
THE EXPERIENCE OF the African asylum seeker is at a crossroads. From the 1960s to 1980s, asylum and refugee status was usually arbitrated by referencing government reports and data produced by the United Nations or other international or intergovernmental agencies. Today, many domestic asylum and refugee status determination procedures in the Global North—including those currently in operation in the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, and Australia—no longer consider the impersonal or nonspecific nature of these data as constituting a solid or secure basis for individual claims. Increasingly, asylum host nations are developing sophisticated, secure data-collection agencies and...
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