Lexington Books
Pages: 254
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Trim: 6¼ x 9½
978-1-66693-446-5 • Hardback • September 2023 • $100.00 • (£77.00)
978-1-66693-447-2 • eBook • September 2023 • $45.00 • (£35.00)
Claire Nolasco Braaten is associate professor in the Department of Criminology and Political Science at Texas A&M University-San Antonio.
Daniel Braaten is associate professor of Political Science in the Department of Criminology and Political Science at Texas A&M University-San Antonio.
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
Braaten and Braaten provide an eye-opening exposé of the highly important but mostly misunderstood topic of asylum for unaccompanied children. The U.S. asylum process overlaps the subfields of public administration, judicial process, and traditional American politics. This book covers the topic from all three angles, while empirically examining thousands of cases over multiple presidencies. While the asylum process is cold and bureaucratic, the narrative descriptions provided by the authors help readers to never lose compassion for the children who unfortunately get caught in our system’s administrative quagmire.
— Daniel E. Chand, Kent State University