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43 Int'l Migration Rev. 3 (2009)

handle is hein.journals/imgratv43 and id is 1 raw text is: INTERNATIONAL MIGRATION REVIEW The Path to Asylum in the US and the Determinants for Who Gets In and Whf Andy J. Rottman University of Colorado Christopher J. Fariss University of California, San Diego Steven C. Poe University ofNorth Texas The migration of political asylum seekers into the United States has long been a salient political topic; however, social scientists have yet to examine this process in its entirety and in the context of political changes since September 11, 2001. Previous research shows that humanitarian and strategic interests are important for decisions made by asylum officers but that research overlooks the decisions made by immigration judges. Here we examine decisions made by both asylum officers and immigration judges using data from a global set of countries, from 1999 to 2004. We find that the waning importance of human rights is more pronounced for asylum officers than for immigration judges after the attack on the World Trade Center. We also find that language heritage, specifically for asylum seekers from English-, Spanish-, and Arabic-speaking countries, substantially affects acceptance rates made by both decision-makers between the two time periods of our study. INTRODUCTION In 2005, the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom, a bipartisan federal commission, expressed concern that the US had been improperly processing many asylum seekers for deportation and requested that *An earlier version of this article was presented at the International Studies Association Conference in Chicago, IL, USA on February 28-March 3, 2007. We would like to thank the editors of IMR, several anonymous reviewers, Mark Gibney, Michael Greig, Micah Gell-Redman, Idean Salehyan, and the rest of the faculty and graduate students at the University of North Texas for their helpful comments on earlier drafts of this paper. Please direct all correspondences to cfariss@ucsd.edu. The appendix mentioned in the text of this article is only available in the online version. To access the data used in this project please visit http://dvn.iq.harvard.edu/dvn/ dv/CJFariss. Lastly, Andy and Chris would like to honor the memory of Steve Poe, who passed away before this project was completed. We are forever grateful for the time spent with Steve as not just students and colleagues but also as friends. © 2009 by the Center for Migration Studies of New York. All rights reserved. DOI: 10.1111/j.1747-7379.2008.01145.x IMRVolume 43 Number 1 (Spring 2009):3-34 3

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