What is it about?
This 2012 paper documents the ways in which the US refugee protection (writ large) system remained robust, but had also been weakened in the preceding decades.. This trend has accelerated in the intervening years, as refugee admissions have sharply fallen, new barriers to asylum have been erected, and the US commitment to temporary protection and humanitarian programs has diminished..
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Why is it important?
It explains the great need for strong US refugee protection policies, and the diminished commitment to them.
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This paper presents an important historical summary of a trend that has worsened over the years, with grave consequences for the world's most vulnerable persons, for the global refugee protection system, and for US leadership on these issues.
Mr Donald Kerwin
University of Notre Dame
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This page is a summary of: The Faltering US Refugee Protection System: Legal and Policy Responses to Refugees, Asylum-Seekers, and Others in Need of Protection, Refugee Survey Quarterly, January 2012, Oxford University Press (OUP),
DOI: 10.1093/rsq/hdr019.
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