"Workshop: Analysis of Country Conditions and Decision-Making on Asylum Claims."

“研讨会：国情分析和庇护申请决策。”

• 批准号: 1642539
• 负责人: Eric Hershberg
• 金额: $ 3.5万
• 依托单位: American University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2016
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2016-08-01 至 2017-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1642539&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Workshop; Analysis; Country; Conditions; Decision

General Summary:Recent years have witnessed a sharp increase in undocumented migration to the United States by minors and families with children seeking refuge from violence in their home countries. This influx of migrants is straining the capacity of the U.S. immigration system to adjudicate their claims, and is taxing an already overburdened community of attorneys available to provide legal assistance. One especially challenging issue that arises from these cases is that the nature of the dangers cited by applicants as motivating them to flee their home countries do not fit easily into the categories of persecution that are established in asylum law and related jurisprudence. This conference brings together leading social scientists with expertise on the conditions driving the migration from and on the psycho-social impacts of the migration experience, with legal scholars who specialize on refugee and asylum law. The objective is to share insights across disciplinary perspectives in order to enhance scholarship, and better to inform lawyers and other practitioners working with this population.Technical Summary:In order to foster the cross-disciplinary collaboration that can inform the efficient, equitable adjudication of asylum cases submitted by newly arrived youth and families, this workshop will convene an international group of social scientists and legal scholars with expertise across three key priority areas: 1) country conditions; 2) psychological assessment of asylum seekers; and 3) asylum adjudication and evolving jurisprudence on asylum law in the U.S. The core objectives of the workshop will be to: 1) connect existing networks of researchers on socio-political dynamics in the region with behavioral scientists engaged in asylum seeker assessment and legal scholars on asylum law and adjudication processes; 2) develop an agenda for research to document forms of persecution in the region, informed by legal experts on substantive criteria and evidentiary standards for asylum claims; 3) discuss current scholarship on the applicability of refugee law to present-day humanitarian challenges and on refugee adjudication, and identify gaps in theoretical understandings of legal decision-making and methodological challenges to advancing research in this area; and 4) propose innovative, interdisciplinary approaches to analyzing adjudication outcomes of these cases as well as their influence on evolving jurisprudence on asylum claims.

摘要：近年来，未成年人和有子女的家庭在本国寻求暴力避难的非法移民人数急剧增加。移民的涌入使美国移民系统裁决他们的申请的能力变得紧张，并给本已不堪重负的律师群体带来了负担，这些律师可以提供法律援助。从这些案件中产生的一个特别具有挑战性的问题是，申请者所说的促使他们逃离本国的危险的性质并不容易符合庇护法和相关判例中确定的迫害类别。这次会议汇聚了具有移民驱动条件和移民经历的心理-社会影响的专业知识的领先社会科学家，以及专门研究难民和庇护法的法律学者。技术总结：为了促进跨学科合作，以便对新到的青年和家庭提交的庇护案件进行有效、公平的裁决，本研讨会将召集一个由社会科学家和法律学者组成的国际小组，他们在三个关键优先领域拥有专门知识：1)国家情况；2)寻求庇护者的心理评估；3)美国的庇护裁决和不断演变的庇护法判例。研讨会的核心目标是：1)将该地区现有的社会政治动态研究人员网络与从事寻求庇护者评估的行为科学家和庇护法和裁决程序的法律学者联系起来；2)制定研究议程，记录该地区的迫害形式，并向法律专家提供关于庇护申请的实质性标准和证据标准的信息；3)讨论目前关于难民法在应对当今人道主义挑战和难民裁决方面的适用性的学术研究，找出在法律决策的理论理解和推进这一领域研究的方法挑战方面的差距；4)提出创新的跨学科方法，以分析这些案件的裁决结果及其对庇护申请不断演变的判例的影响。