Crossing the Border: How Disability Civil Rights Protections Can Include Disabled Asylum-Seekers
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- Description
This report provides an overview of the impacts of the U.S. asylum system on disabled children and adults; explores legal issues at the intersection of immigration and disability; and offers recommendations for applying existing disability civil rights protections, such as the ADA, to assist disabled asylum-seekers through the process of gaining permanent legal status.
- Published by
- Center for American Progress
- Issue areas
- Disabilities
- Immigration
- Document type
- Report/Whitepaper
- Geography
- North America / United States
- Language
- English
- Copyright
- Copyright 2022 by Center for American Progress. All rights reserved.
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- Title
- Crossing the Border: How Disability Civil Rights Protections Can Include Disabled Asylum-Seekers
- Publication date
- 2022-08-24
- Publication year
- 2022
- Authors
- Emily DiMatteo , Mia Ives-Rublee , Trinh. Q. Truong
- Copyright holder(s)
- Center for American Progress
- Geographical focus
- North America / United States
- Document type
- Report/Whitepaper
- Language
- English
- URL
- https://immigrationstrategies.issuelab.org/resource/crossing-the-border-how-disability-civil-rights-protections-can-include-disabled-asylum-seekers
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