Anti-Corruption’s Next Great Migration?: Strengthening U.S. Refugee And Asylum Law Under Existing U.S. Anti-Corruption Commitments

Authors

Bianka UklejaFollow

Abstract

First, this paper will describe the U.S.’s anticorruption commitments under international law. Next, it will present the general features of current U.S. refugee and asylum law, pertaining to particular social group (PSG) and political opinion claims. Last, this paper will discuss how the Biden Anti-Corruption Memo provides fertile ground for DHS to initiate an informal rulemaking process under the Administrative Procedure Act (APA) to engage civil society on how U.S. refugee and asylum laws can better support a pathway to citizenship for anti-corruption activists in pursuit of key U.S. foreign policy interests abroad and who find themselves unable to seek protection in their home countries.

Recommended Citation

Bianka Ukleja, Anti-Corruption’s Next Great Migration?: Strengthening U.S. Refugee And Asylum Law Under Existing U.S. Anti-Corruption Commitments, 1 Refugee L. & Migration Stud. Brief 1 (2023).
Available at: https://digitalcommons.wcl.american.edu/refugeemigrationstudiesbrief/vol1/iss2/2