Driven from Home: Protecting the Rights of Forced Migrants

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275 Abizadeh, Arash, , , –,  Adelman, Howard,  Afghanistan, , , – African National Congress,  Albright, Madeleine,  Aleinikoff, Alex, n All Africa Conference of Churches,  American Bar Association Commission on Immigration Policy, Practice & Pro Bono,  Amnesty International, n, , , , n Annan, Kofi: and RP, , , , ; on sovereignty, – Appleby, Scott,  Aquinas, Thomas,  Aron, Raymond,  Ashcroft, John, – asylum and refugee law, U.S., , –; applications for asylum, , , , n, nn–; applications for refugee status, , n, nn–; asylum adjudication disparities, –; asylum bar for persecutors, –, n, n; and BIA, , –, –, –, n; BIA “streamlining” and reorganization, , –, n; Bush administration, , , ; definition of refugee, , n; determinations of eligibility and special cases, , nn–; and DHS, , , ; differentiating asylum and withholding , n; differentiating legitimate/ illegitimate versions of the political, –, , n; discretionary calculations, , n; and Displaced Persons Act, , , n; dissonance and ambivalence in, –, n; DOJ appointments/hirings, , , n, n; evolution of asylum and its political considerations, –, n; exceptions/executive discretion, , , n, nn–, n; exclusions from protection, –, ; executive and legislative power/decisions, , n; impact of the IIRIRA and asylum restrictions (s), ; judicial criticism, –, n, n; material support bar, –, nn–, nn–, nn–; national security discourse and restrictive immigration policies, , n; Obama administration, ; parole power, ; partisan refugee law, –; presidential consults with Congress, , n; and Refugee Act (), , , , n, –n; and Refugee Convention , , , , , , nn–, n, n; and serious nonpolitical crimes, , n, n, nn–; and “seventh preference” category, ; specific protective mechanisms for certain populations, , –n, n; statistics on admission and resettlement, –, n; and Supreme Court, , , n, n; and term “political asylum,” –; USA Patriot Act and the REAL ID Act, , , n asylum seekers/refugees and national exclusion policies, –, –, , –; the Australian Pacific Solution and border protection policy, –, –; Cambodia’s exclusion of Montagnards, , –; Index 276 Index asylum-seekers (continued) exceptions/executive discretion in U.S. asylum law, , , n, nn–, n; and human rights NGOs, , , , –; and Kew Gardens Principle, –, ; material support bar in U.S. asylum law, –, nn–, nn–, nn–; persecutors in U.S. asylum and refugee law, –, n, nn–; problem of using human rights paradigm to critique government choices, , –; “push” factors/“pull” factors, ; and Refugee Convention, , , , , n, n; serious nonpolitical crimes, , n, n, nn–; and UNHCR compromises on refoulement, , . See also asylum and refugee law, U.S. Augustine of Hippo, ,  Australian border protection policy excluding asylum seekers, –, –; detention centers, ; new human rights provisions, –; Pacific Solution and government deterrence strategy, –; the  Tampa incident and asylum seekers, – Australian Human Rights Commission,  Australian Maritime Safety Authority, Rescue Coordination Centre, – Ayoob, Mohammed,  Bader, Veit,  Bagheritari, Manilee,  Balkans: conflict-driven refugees, ; and just war ethic, –; Kosovo, , –, ; returning refugees and economic vulnerability , ; RP and UN failures, ,  Bass, Gary,  Benedict XVI, Pope: address to UN General Assembly on human rights and the state, , , , n, –; and RP, – Bethe, Hans,  biblical ethics and theological understanding of displacement, –, –,  Blair, Tony,  Blake, Michael, ,  Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA): and asylum adjudication disparities, , –, n; and exclusions from asylum protection , –, –; “streamlining” and reorganization, , –, n Bolshevik Revolution,  borders and boundary laws. See state sovereignty and boundary laws/borders Boutros-Ghali, Boutros,  Brennan, Frank, –, –,  Brodie, Bernard,  Brookings-Bern Project on Internal Displacement , ,  Bruce, Tricia C., n Burma, , n Bush, George W. (administration): Iraq war and abuse of RP, –, ; and political consideration in asylum law, , ,  Butchart, Alex,  Cambodian national policies and Montagnard asylum seekers: agreements with/limitations on UNHCR, –, ; forced removal/ deportations, –, –, –; and history of Montagnard influxes from Vietnam , –; and human rights NGOs, , , , –; the  memorandum of understanding (MOU), –, –, ; tripartite agreements, , –; UNHCR and repatriation agreements, –, –, , ; UNHCR’s failures, , – Canada: Guatemalan migration to, ; immigration rates, n; and RP, ; and U.S. compliance with nonrefoulement obligations , , n Canadian Council for Refugees, n Canadian Council of Churches, n Carens, Joseph,  Cartagena Declaration on Refugees (), ,  Cathechism of the Catholic Church, ,  Catholic rationalism and just war ethic,  Catholic social thought (CST), –, –; distinction between refugees and economic migrants, n, –; and economic migration, –, –; and just war ethic, , ; and “minimum conditions for life in community,” –, –, n; moral intuition and moral definition of refugee , –; and “peace building,” ; and personal sociality, , n; and the “political community,” –, –, n, n, n, nn–, n; and RP, , –; on socioeconomic rights, , , –, n; theological framework for Christian response to Index 277 suffering of refugees/IDPs, –, –, , nn–; and the universal human community, , n, , , n, n. See also Catholic tradition of human rights advocacy on behalf of the displaced; Christian theological/ethical tradition and justice for the displaced Catholic tradition of human rights advocacy on behalf of the displaced, –, –; the affirmation of human rights as source of action, –; Benedict XVI’s address to General Assembly, , , , n, –; and common good of the receiving state, –; and cultural rights, ; and human rights...