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

概述：近年来，未成年人和有子女的家庭为躲避本国的暴力而向美国非法移民的人数急剧增加。移民的涌入使美国移民系统裁决他们的要求的能力受到限制，并使本已负担过重的律师社区负担过重，无法提供法律的援助。 从这些案件中产生的一个特别具有挑战性的问题是，申请人作为促使他们逃离本国的动机而列举的危险的性质，并不容易符合庇护法和相关判例中所确立的迫害类别。这次会议汇集了领先的社会科学家与专业知识的条件驱动的移民和移民经验的心理社会影响，与法律的学者谁专门从事难民和庇护法。其目的是分享跨学科的观点，以提高学术水平，更好地告知律师和其他从业人员与这一人口。技术摘要：为了促进跨学科的合作，可以告知新来的青年和家庭提交的庇护案件的有效，公平的裁决，本次研讨会将召集一个国际社会科学家和法律的学者小组，他们在三个关键优先领域拥有专业知识：1）国家条件; 2）寻求庇护者的心理评估; 3）庇护裁决和美国庇护法的演变判例。研讨会的核心目标是：1）连接现有的社会研究人员网络，该区域的政治动态，行为科学家参与寻求庇护者评估，法律的学者研究庇护法和裁决程序; 2）制定一项研究议程，记录该地区各种形式的迫害，并由法律的专家就庇护申请的实质性标准和证据标准提供资料;（3）讨论目前关于难民法对当今人道主义挑战的适用性和关于难民裁决的学术研究，并确定在法律的决策和方法的挑战，以推进这一领域的研究的理论理解的差距;和4）提出创新，跨学科的方法来分析这些案件的判决结果，以及它们对不断发展的庇护申请的判例的影响。

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.