Benched Justice - How Judges Decide Asylum Claims and Asylum Rights of Unaccompanied

This book presents a gripping analysis of the hidden factors that affect the asylum claims and rights of unaccompanied minors in the US. This book reveals how politics, economics, and social pressures shape the decisions of immigration judges and how federal courts respond to policies impacting these vulnerable minors.

List of contents

Contents
List of Abbreviations
Introduction
Chapter 1: Legal Background of U.S. Asylum Proceedings Involving Unaccompanied Alien Children
Part I
Chapter 2: Judicial Decision Making at the Macro-Level: How do Immigration Judges Decide?
Chapter 3: Judicial Decision Making at The Macro-Level: How Does the Board of Immigration Appeals Decide?
Part II
Chapter 4: Judicial Decision Making at the Micro-Level: Federal Courts' Decision Making on Procedural Rights and Procedural Due Process of Unaccompanied Minors in the U.S.
Chapter 5: Judicial Decision Making at the Micro-Level: Federal Court Decisions on Substantive Law and Rights
Conclusion
Bibliography
About the Authors

About the author

By Claire Nolasco Braaten and Daniel Braaten

Summary

This book presents a gripping analysis of the hidden factors that affect the asylum claims and rights of unaccompanied minors in the US. This book reveals how politics, economics, and social pressures shape the decisions of immigration judges and how federal courts respond to policies impacting these vulnerable minors.

Product details

• Authors: Claire Nolasco Braaten, Claire Nolasco Braaten Braaten, Daniel Braaten
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.10.2023
• EAN: 9781666934465
• ISBN: 978-1-66693-446-5
• No. of pages: 250
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Law > Miscellaneous; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Emigration & Immigration, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Human Rights, LAW / General Practice, LAW / Courts, LAW / Constitutional, LAW / Family Law / Children, LAW / Trial Practice, Migration, immigration & emigration, Migration, immigration and emigration, Courts & procedure, Legal systems: courts and procedures, Family law: children, Asylum Law, Legal skills: advocacy, Advocacy