LEADER 04151nam 2200733 450 001 9910796481503321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-8122-9037-2 024 7 $a10.9783/9780812290370 035 $a(CKB)3800000000007874 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10994660 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001446087 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12621334 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001446087 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11455685 035 $a(PQKB)11755309 035 $a(OCoLC)902702228 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse35458 035 $a(DE-B1597)451229 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780812290370 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3442451 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10994660 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL682663 035 $a(OCoLC)932313272 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3442451 035 $a(EXLCZ)993800000000007874 100 $a20141221h20152015 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aImmigration judges and U.S. asylum policy /$fBanks Miller, Linda Camp Keith, and Jennifer S. Holmes 210 1$aPhiladelphia, Pennsylvania :$cUniversity of Pennsylvania Press,$d2015. 210 4$dİ2015 215 $a1 online resource (248 p.) 225 1 $aPennsylvania Studies in Human Rights 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a1-322-51381-3 311 $a0-8122-4660-8 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tCONTENTS --$tChapter 1. Introduction --$tChapter 2. Creating a Dataset --$tChapter 3. A Cognitive Approach to IJ Decision Making --$tChapter 4. Local Conditions and IJ Decision Making --$tChapter 5. Appealing to the Board of Immigration Appeals --$tChapter 6. The Policy Gap and Asylum Outcomes --$tChapter 7. IJ's and Reform of the U.S. Asylum System --$tNotes --$tReferences --$tIndex --$tAcknowledgments 330 $aAlthough there are legal norms to secure the uniform treatment of asylum claims in the United States, anecdotal and empirical evidence suggest that strategic and economic interests also influence asylum outcomes. Previous research has demonstrated considerable variation in how immigration judges decide seemingly similar cases, which implies a host of legal concerns?not the least of which is whether judicial bias is more determinative of the decision to admit those fleeing persecution to the United States than is the merit of the claim. These disparities also raise important policy considerations about how to fix what many perceive to be a broken adjudication system. With theoretical sophistication and empirical rigor, Immigration Judges and U.S. Asylum Policy investigates more than 500,000 asylum cases that were decided by U.S. immigration judges between 1990 and 2010. The authors find that judges treat certain facts about an asylum applicant more objectively than others: facts determined to be legally relevant tend to be treated similarly by judges of different political ideologies, while facts considered extralegal are treated subjectively. Furthermore, the authors examine how local economic and political conditions as well as congressional reforms have affected outcomes in asylum cases, concluding with a series of policy recommendations aimed at improving the quality of immigration law decision making rather than trying to reduce disparities between decision makers. 410 0$aPennsylvania studies in human rights. 606 $aEmigration and immigration law$zUnited States 606 $aAsylum, Right of$zUnited States 607 $aUnited States$2fast 610 $aHuman Rights. 610 $aLaw. 610 $aPolitical Science. 610 $aPublic Policy. 615 0$aEmigration and immigration law 615 0$aAsylum, Right of 676 $a323.631 700 $aMiller$b Banks$01565317 702 $aKeith$b Linda Camp 702 $aHolmes$b Jennifer S. 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910796481503321 996 $aImmigration judges and U.S. asylum policy$93834870 997 $aUNINA