Refugee & Asylum Law

Deborah E. Anker, U.S. Immigration and Refugee Policy: A Brief Historical Perspective, 13 In Defense of the Alien 74 (1991).

Deborah E. Anker, The Refugee Act of 1980: An Historical Perspective, 5 Defense of the Alien 159 (1984).

Deborah E. Anker & Michael Posner, The Forty Year Crisis: A Legislative History of The Refugee Act of 1980, 19 San Diego L. Rev. 9…

Deborah E. Anker, Determining Asylum Claims in the United States: A Case Study on the Implementation of Legal Norms in an Unstructured Adjudicatory Environment, 19…

Deborah E. Anker, The Mischaracterized Asylum Crisis: Realities Behind Proposed Reforms, 9 Am. U. Int’l L. Rev. 29 (1994).

Deborah E. Anker, Rape in the Community as a Basis for Asylum; The Treatment of Women Refugees: Claims to Protection in Canada and the United…

Deborah E. Anker, Joan Fitzpatrick & Andrew Shaknove, Crisis and Cure: A Reply to Hathaway, Neve and Schuck, 11 Harv. Hum. Rts. J. 295 (1998).

Deborah E. Anker, Refugee Status and Violence Against Women in the ‘Domestic Sphere’, 15 Geo. Immigr. L.J. 391 (2001).

Deborah E. Anker, Refugee Law, Gender and Human Rights Paradigm,15 Harv. Hum. Rts. J. 133 (2002).

Deborah E. Anker, James L. Cavallaro & Avantika Shastri, Towards the Lowest Common Denominator: Canada Guts Post-9/11 Refugee Protection, 9 Bender’s Immigr. Bull. 1028 (2004).

Deborah E. Anker, First Asylum Issues under United States Law, in Asylum Law and Practice in Europe and North America: A Comparative Analysis by Leading…

Deborah E. Anker, Grounds for Asylum, Withholding, and CAT Protection: Current Issues and Recent Developments, in 40th Annual Immigration & Naturalization Institute (Practising Law Institute…

Deborah E. Anker, Lena Ayoub, H. Glenn Fogle Jr. & Matthew Muller, Stepping Up to the Bar: Exclusions from Asylum and Withholding of Removal Protection,…

Deborah E. Anker, Gender-based Particular Social Group Claims, in Immigration Practice Pointers (2011-2012) 553 (Gregory P. Adams, et al. eds., American Immigration Lawyers Association 2011).

Deborah E. Anker, Corroboration, Credibility and Nexus in Asylum Law, in Immigration Practice Pointers (2012-2013) 466 (Gregory P. Adams, et al. eds., American Immigration Lawyers…

Deborah E. Anker & Palmer Lawrence, ‘Third Generation’ Gangs, Warfare in Central America, and Refugee Law’s Political Opinion Ground, 14-10 Immigr. Briefings (Oct. 2014).

Deborah E. Anker, Legal Change From the Bottom Up: The Development of Gender Asylum Jurisprudence in the United States, in Gender in Refugee Law: From…

Deborah E. Anker & Josh Vittor, International Human Rights and US Refugee Law: Synergies and Contradictions, in Human Rights and the Refugee Definition: Comparative Legal…

Deborah Anker, Lauren Gilbert & Nancy Kelly, Women Whose Governments Are Unable or Unwilling to Provide Reasonable Protection from Domestic Violence May Qualify as Refugees…

Fatma E. Marouf & Deborah E. Anker, Socioeconomic Rights and Refugee Status: Deepening the Dialogue Between Human Rights and Refugee Law, 103 Am. J. Int’l…

Deborah E. Anker, Refugee Law, Gender and the Human Rights Paradigm, in Passing Lines: Sexuality and Immigration (Brad Epps ed., Harv. Univ. Press 2005).