What is it about?
This article summarizes, integrates and supplements a series of articles on US laws and policies on refugees, asylum-seekers, trafficking victims, and groups in need of temporary protection. It assesses the strengths and limitations of US "refugee protection" policies, and proposes ways to strengthen this system. It uses the 35th anniversary of the Refugee Act of 1980 -- which created the formal US refugee resettlement program and sought to bring US asylum laws into compliance with international law -- as its point of departure.
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Why is it important?
These programs are a matter of life and death for hundreds of thousands of persons each year and have long been thought to project US values to the world. However, they have come under sustained attack.
Perspectives
This paper provides an excellent summary of this system, its strengths, limitations, and needed improvements.
Mr Donald Kerwin
University of Notre Dame
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This page is a summary of: The US Refugee Protection System on the 35th Anniversary of the Refugee Act of 1980, Journal on Migration and Human Security, June 2015, SAGE Publications,
DOI: 10.1177/233150241500300204.
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