Membership in a Particular Social Group: International Journalists and U.S. Asylum Law

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Permanent URL	http://hdl.lib.byu.edu/1877/546
Title	Membership in a Particular Social Group: International Journalists and U.S. Asylum Law
BYU Creator	Carter, Edward L. Clark, Brad
Keywords	journalists; U.S. Court of Appeal; immigration; asylum
Description/Abstract	At least thirty non-U.S. journalists in the last decade have argued in U.S. Courts of Appeal that U.S. immigration authorities erroneously denied their asylum applications based on persecution in their native countries. ... Still, journalists persecuted in their home countries for their journalism work might better fit the statutory qualifications for asylum --primarily persecution on account of race, religion, nationality, political opinion or membership in a "particular social group"--than the U.S. immigration system sometimes acknowledges. ... Finally, and most importantly, the asylum seeker bears the burden to establish that he or she is unable or unwilling to return to his or her home country because of past persecution or a well-founded fear of future persecution "on account of race, religion, nationality, membership in a particular social group, or political opinion." ... If the IJ does not grant the asylum application, the applicant may appeal to the Board of Immigration Appeals, another Justice Department entity. ... In a 2000 case, for example, one Ninth Circuit panel held that a Pakistani journalist who was beaten and threatened in his newspaper office by political partisans unhappy with his coverage had been persecuted because of his political opinion.
Source	Carter, Edward L., Clark, Brad. "Membership in a Particular Social Group": International Journalists and U.S. Asylum Law. 2007 Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc. Communication Law and Policy (2007).;
Publisher	Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc.
Date Original	2007
Language	English eng en
Publication Type	Articles
Type	Text
Format	application/pdf
Owning Institution	Brigham Young University
BYU College	College of Fine Arts and Communications
BYU Department	Communications
Copyright Status	(c) 2007 Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc. Communication Law and Policy. Contact publisher for additional reprinting or re-use. http://www.routledge.com/;
Copyright Use Information	http://www.lib.byu.edu/generic_copyright.html

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