Lives in the Balance: Asylum Adjudication by the Department of Homeland Security

by Jaya Ramji-Nogales, Philip G. Schrag, Andrew I. Schoenholtz

Although Americans generally think that the U.S. Department of Homeland Security is focused only on preventing terrorism, one office within that agency has a humanitarian mission. Its Asylum Office adjudicates applications from people fleeing persecution in their homelands. Lives in the Balance is a careful empirical analysis of how Homeland Security decided these asylum cases over a recent fourteen-year period.

Day in and day out, asylum...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814708765
• ISBN13: 9780814708767
• Release Date: January 2014
• Publisher: New York University Press
• Length: 286 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.0"