Collaborative Research: How Do U.S. Immigration Courts Decide Gender-based Asylum Cases?

移民法官如何决定当某人基于性别要求保护时，何时给予庇护？ 这项合作研究将阐明基于性别的庇护法不断发展的领域的决策过程。这是特别及时的，因为法律的难民定义没有明确指定性别为保护的理由，基于性别的要求令人担忧。研究人员将对来自全国各地的移民法院庇护决定（超过760项决定）的最大已知存储库进行研究，这些决定位于加州大学黑斯廷斯分校性别难民研究中心，并通过FOIA请求获得的决定补充这些决定。他们将创建一个原始数据集，系统地研究案件事实模式和法律的先例等因素如何影响法律的结果。这项独特的研究将审查以前从未在这方面研究过的移民官僚机构的水平。

How do immigration judges decide when to grant someone asylum when they claim protection on the basis of gender? This collaborative study will illuminate the decision making processes in the evolving field of gender-based asylum law. It is especially timely because the legal refugee definition does not explicitly designate gender as a ground for protection, gender-based claims are fraught. The researchers will undertake a study of the largest known repository of immigration court asylum decisions from around the country (more than 760 decisions) housed at the Center for Gender & Refugee Studies of UC Hastings and supplement those with decisions obtained through FOIA requests. They will create an original data set to systematically examine how factors such as case facts patterns and legal precedent affect legal outcomes. This unique study will examine a level of immigration bureaucracy never before studied in this regard.