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

移民法官如何在某人根据性别要求获得保护时决定何时给予他们庇护？这项合作研究将阐明基于性别的庇护法领域不断演变的决策过程。这是特别及时的，因为法律难民定义没有明确指定性别作为保护的理由，基于性别的索赔令人担忧。研究人员将对加州大学黑斯廷斯分校性别与难民研究中心已知的全国最大的移民法院庇护决定库(超过760项裁决)进行研究，并用通过《信息自由法》请求获得的裁决来补充这些裁决。他们将创建一个原始数据集，系统地检查案件事实、模式和法律先例等因素如何影响法律结果。这项独特的研究将考察移民官僚机构在这方面从未研究过的水平。

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.