Foreign Law: Topical Research

Elisa Mason, Guide to Country Research for Refugee Status Determination (LLRX.com, February 15, 2001)
Elisa Mason, Guide to International Refugee Law Resources on the Web (Law Library Resource Xchange (LLRX), July 15, 2000)
Legal and Social Conditions for Asylum Seekers and Refugees in Central and Eastern European Countries (Fabrice Liebaut ed., Danish Refugee Council, April 1999)
Legal and Social Conditions for Asylum Seekers and Refugees in Western European Countries (Fabrice Liebaut and Jane Hughes eds., Danish Refugee Council, January 1997)
United Settlement (supplement including links full text of national immigration and nationality laws: Documents sur la nationalité et sur le droit international privé: Lois sur la nationalité des pays et territoires européens; Andy Grossman; see also Bibliography as a Word file)
Refugee Council of Australia
Australia - Refugee Review Tribunal (includes links to decisions and international and country information on the Internet)
Canada - Immigration and Refugee Board (links Legal References such as the RefLex database of digests of recent immigration and refugee law decisions; REFINFO (responses to requests for country information); links to the Immigration Appeal Division (IAD) and the Convention Refugee Determination Division (CRDD); including Chairperson's Guidelines:
- Guidelines on Detention (March 12, 1998) (was at http://www.irb.gc.ca/GUIDLINE/DETENTION%20REVIEW/index.htm)
- Women Refugee Claimants Fearing Gender-Related Persecution (November 13, 1996)
- Child Refugee Claimants: Procedural and Evidentiary Issues (September 30, 1996)
- Civilian Non-Combatants Fearing Persecution in Civil War Situations (March 7, 1996)
Asylum Gender Guidelines (PDF file; guidelines from UK's Immigration Appellate Authority (IAA), November 2000)
Gender Guidelines for Female Refugees & Asylum Seekers (The Irish Council for Civil Liberties, Women's Committee)
Women Refugee Claimants Fearing Gender-Related Persecution (Guideline 4, November 13, 1996; Canadian gender guidelines)
Considerations for Asylum Officers Adjudicating Asylum Claims from Women: Memorandum (May 26, 1995, to all INS Asylum Office/rs, HQASM Coordinators, from Phyllis Coven, Office of International Affairs; United States; American gender guidelines). xxKF4836.Z9C667 1995.
Guidelines For Children's Asylum Claims (December 10, 1998, Memorandum for: Asylum Officers, Immigration Officers, Headquarters Coordinators (Asylum and Refugees), from Jeff Weiss, Acting Director, Office of International Affairs, Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS), U.S. Department of Justice). WLaw54147.
Center for Gender and Refugee Studies (CGRS, University of California Hastings College of the Law; provides links to resources on cases involving women asylum-seekers, including summaries and full texts of gender asylum cases (including unpublished decisions of immigration judges and the BIA, related documents and web sites)
Gender-Based Persecution: New Zealand Jurisprudence (A paper prepared for the Symposium on Gender-Based Persecution organised by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, Geneva, 22 and 23 February 1996, by Rodger PG Haines)
European Campaign for Women Asylum-Seekers (European Women's Lobby (EWL))
Women and Asylum - A Conference Report on Gender-Related Persecution (Mette Ellegaard ed.; Alpha Lingua trans.; Copenhagen: Danish Refugee Council, Information & Documentation Department, June 1997). ISBN: 87-7710-311-4.
Special Bibliography on Refugee Women (UNHCR)
Special Bibliography on Refugee Children (UNHCR)
International Rescue Committee (women and children - refugee issues)
Women's Commission for Refugee Women and Children (IRC's WCRWC)
Committee on Migration and Refugee Affairs (InterAction; church refugee services)
International Migration Working Papers (Center for International Studies, MIT)
International Association for the Study of Forced Migration (IASFM)
Forced Migration Projects (Open Society Institute, Soros Foundation; includes Migration Law Monitor and Forced Migration Alerts)
Refugees International
International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC)
International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC)
ReliefWeb (humanitarian relief)
International Association of Refugee Law Judges (IARLJ)
European Roma Rights Center (ERRC; "Gypsies"; Roma and Sinti)
European Centre for Minority Issues (includes info re Roma)
International Centre for Migration Policy Development (ICMPD; joint initiative of Switzerland and Austria, with headquarters in Vienna)
Canadian Council for Refugees (includes CCRlist electronic mailing list)
Centre for Refugee Studies (York University, Canada; includes Refugee Law Research Unit, CCRLIST information, and links to related resources on the Internet)
Danish Refugee Council
LOI no 98-349 du 11 mai 1998 relative a l'entree et au sejour des etrangers en France et au droit d'asile (new French immigration law)
L'Immigration et le Droit D'Asile (étude de Législation comparée, 15 January 1998; Le Senat, France; compares European countries)
Asylum and Refugee Law and Policy (SOS-NET, in French)
Groupe d'Information et de Soutien des Immigres (GISTI; France; see also http://www.bok.net/pajol/gisti.htm and the PAJOL related French law page)
Informationsverbund Asyl / ZDWF e.V. (successor organization to the Zentrale Dokumentationsstelle der Freien Wohlfahrtspflege für Flüchtlinge or ZDWF which had a web site at http://www.koeln-online.de/zdwf/; Germany)
Center for International and European Law on Immigration and Asylum (Professor Kay Hailbronner, University of Konstanz, Germany; also has link to the English translation of the Asylum Procedure Act as amended to 29 October 1997 and many asylum, refugee, and immigration law related links at their Passerelle page)
Pro Asyl (Human Rights Organisation for Refugees = Menschenrechtsorganisation für Flüchtlinge; in Germany)
Irish Refugee Council (IRC)
Gender Guidelines for Female Refugees & Asylum Seekers (The Irish Council for Civil Liberties (ICCL), Women's Committee)
Refugee Project (Irish Commission for Justice and Peace)
Vereniging VluchtelingenWerk Nederland (Dutch Refugee Council - site not yet open; see also Ministry of Justice's Aliens Policy page)
Guy Goodwin-Gill's Home Page (Netherlands)
Autonoom Centrum (Dutch site including links to refugee and asylum law information)
Centre for Migration Law (Centrum voor Migratierecht, University of Nijmegen, the Netherlands; includes links to web sites related to Migration, Refugees, Asylum, and Human Rights)
International Association of Refugee Law Judges (IARLJ; Secretariat located in the Netherlands)
New Zealand Refugee Law (RefNZ; includes decisions of the Refugee Status Appeals Authority (RSAA), and immigration information)
Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC)
Norwegian Organization for Asylum Seekers (Norsk Organisasjon for Asylsøkere; NOAS)
Asyl Nord (Newsletter on Baltic-Nordic asylum and refugee issues via the Immigration Institute's Asyl och Flyktingar page; see also the United Nations Information Centre for Nordic Countries' Asyl Nord page; "Asyl Nord is a monthly newsletter on refugee and asylum issues, produced by the UNHCR Regional Office for the Baltic and Nordic Countries")
Conselho Português para os Refugiados (CPR; Portuguese Refugee Council)
Scottish Refugee Council
South African Migration Project (SAMP)
Swedish Refugee Council
Statens Invandrarverk (Swedish Immigration Board)
Immigration Institute (Sweden)
Centre for Research in International Migration and Ethnic Relations (Sweden; see related links via IMERWEB)
Swedish Network of Asylum and Refugee Support Groups (FARR - Flyktinggruppernas och Asylkommittéernas Riksråd)
Forum suisse pour l'étude des migrations (FSM; Swiss Forum for Migration Studies)
British Refugee Council (was at http://www.gn.apc.org/refugeecounciluk/)
Refugee Studies Program (Oxford University; publisher of the Forced Migration Review)
Electronic Immigration Network ("links major information providers with advice workers and practitioners dealing with all issues relating to immigration, refugee and nationality law and practice in the United Kingdom; including EIN Newsletter, and links to other UK and European asylum and refugee sites at http://www.ein.org.uk/resource/content.htm, and Refugee Legal Centre is forthcoming)
Immigration Appellate Authority (IAA; a tribunal which hears appeals against decisions made by the Home Secretary (and his officials) in asylum and immigration matters; the IAA has two tiers: The Immigration Adjudicators and The Immigration Appeal Tribunal)
Immigration Appellate Authority (IAA; UK)
Immigration Law Practitioners' Association (ILPA, London)
Immigration Law Case Summaries (Swarbrick & Co. Solicitors)
Refugee Legal Centre
Refugee Women's Legal Group (RWLG, London)
Refugee Action (London)
National Coalition of Anti-Deportation Campaigns (NCADC)
Asylum and Immigration Statistics (full texts of Asylum Statistics, United Kingdom and Control of Immigration: Statistics United Kingdom from the Home Office's Research Development and Statistics Directorate)
United States
Immigration Law on the Web (Beth Smith, October 1, 1999, Law Library Resource Xchange (LLRX))
"Well-Founded Fear" (new documentary by filmmakers, Shari Robertson and Michael Camerini, that goes inside the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) to document the process by which asylum agents grant or deny asylum to refugees)
U.S. Immigration and Nationality Act (INA)
U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS, U.S. Department of Justice)
INS Communique (month newsletter)
Immigration and Naturalization Statistics (INS; includes full text of the Statistical Yearbook, Immigration to the United States in Fiscal Year..., Annual Report: Legal Immigration, Fiscal Year 1997, Illegal Alien Resident Population, the Immigration Fact Sheet, and other statistical publications and reports)
INS Statistical Yearbook (includes 1996-1998)
Laws, Regulations, and Guides (the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service Legal Page; includes the text of the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA), immigration regulations (from the Code of Federal Regulations (CFR), operations instructions, interpretations, INS notices from 1994-date in the Federal Register (FR), BIA Interim Decisions from v.19 to date (Interim Decision #2951 (1983) to date; a link to the Foreign Affairs Manual (FAM); it is also possible to "Search Law Database" through the full texts of the Exchange Visitor Skills List, INS Federal Register Publications, Inspector's Field Manual, Interim Decisions, Law Books, Public Laws, Statistical Guide)
U.S. Commission on Immigration Reform
Board of Immigration Appeals Precedent Decisions (BIA Interim Decisions)
Immigration and Nationality Decisions (I & N Dec. volumes online; most recent at Case Name and Citation page)
U.S. Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA) (includes full texts of administrative precedent decisions beginning with Interim Decision 3296 (October 4, 1996))
Kasinga (Togo woman granted asylum by INS - female genital mutilation issue)
Immigration Court, Executive Office for Immigration Review, U.S. Department of Justice (Immigration Judge decision information available from the EOIR at 1-800-898-7180); see also FOIA (Freedom of Information Act) page for more information on the Office of the Chief Immigration Judge (OCIJ); selected decisions of Immigration Judges (IJs) are published in the Federal Immigration Law Reporter, Immigration and Naturalization Decisions, and Interpreter Rulings (Interpreter Releases?))
Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration (PRM; U.S. Department of State)
Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR; U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Administration for Children and Families)
Citizenship Laws of the World (March 2001 233-page PDF file containing synopses of citizenship laws for countries worldwide with addresses, phone and fax numbers, and websites for embassies and consular offices; published by the U.S. Office of Personnel Management, Investigation Services)
U.S. Foreign and Defense Policy/Immigration (Congressional Research Service (CRS); brief reports in full text ASCII and PDF formats)
Immigrant Policy Project: State and Local Coalition on Immigration (National Conference of State Legislatures, U.S.)
U.S. Committee for Refugees (USCR; includes worldwide refugee information, country conditions, statistics, refugee themes, expert network, list of publications, etc.; see also other page at http://www.irsa-uscr.org/uscr/uscrindx.htm; includes special pages on "Issues and Topics in the Refugee field such as Detention, Health/Mental Health, Internally Displaced Persons, Landmines, Refugees in the Media, Refugee / Asylum Law, Religious Persecution, Repatriation, Resettlement in the United States, Safe Havens, U.S. Congress, Women and Children)
American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA)
American Immigration Lawyers Association (links to Internet resources)
Immigration Websites (AILA)
Immigration Law Professors (AILA)
Asylumlaw.org, Inc. ("Helping Win Asylum Cases Worldwide"; has "established partnerships with the Chicago-based Midwest Immigration & Human Rights Center, the FCJ Hamilton House Refugee Project in Toronto, and the Refugee and Immigration Legal Centre in Footscray, Australia")
International Association of Refugee Law Judges (IARLJ; Secretariat located in the Netherlands)

Refugee Caselaw Site (University of Michigan Law School):

     "The site currently collects, indexes, and publishes selected recent
     court decisions that interpret the legal definition of a "refugee." It
     presently contains cases from the highest national courts of
     Australia, Austria, Canada, Germany, New Zealand, Switzerland,
     the United Kingdom, and the United States"

Refugee Law: Status & Rights (University of Michigan Law School Program in Refugee and Asylum Law "Refugee Caselaw Site":

     The purpose of this site is to promote transnational analysis of
     refugee law by advocates, decision-makers, and policymakers 
     committed to the effective implementation of international standards.
     The site currently collects, indexes, and publishes selected recent
     court decisions that interpret the legal definition of a "refugee." It
     presently contains cases from the highest national courts of
     Australia, Austria, Canada, France, Germany, New Zealand,
     Switzerland, the United Kingdom, and the United States...
     Cases for this site are indexed by Professor James Hathaway of
     the University of Michigan Law School, and by Professor Walter
     Kalin of the Institute of Public Law of the Faculty of Law,
     University of Bern.

CALS Asylum Case Research Guide (Center for Applied Legal Studies, Georgetown University Law Center)

Refugee Law Center (NGO focusing on the rights of refugees and immigrants in Boston, publisher of Deborah Anker's Law of Asylum in the United States (3d ed., 1999) and Gender Asylum Law in Different Countries: Decisions and Guidelines (Refugee Law Center, by Mimi Liu & Laura Black, 1999; XXK3230.R45G46 1999 Law (was at WLaw55263)); includes Gender Asylum Decisions Database - a collection of gender-based asylum claims and decisions created in collaboration with the Harvard Law School Immigration and Refugee Clinic Program, the American Immigration Law Foundation (AILF), the National Immigration Project, etc.:

     The over 200 records in the database document claims of asylum
     applicants from around the world. Each of the following countries
     is represented in the database:  Afghanistan, Albania,
     Bangladesh, Bosnia, Bulgaria, China, Colombia, Cote d'Ivoire, Ecuador,
     Egypt, Ethiopia, El Salvador, Ghana, Guatemala, Guinea, Haiti,
     Honduras, Iran, Jordan, Kenyan, Lebanon, Liberia, Malaysia, Mali,
     Mexico, Morocco, Nepal, Nicaragua, Nigeria, Pakistan, Peru, 
     Philippines, Poland, Russia, Somalia, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Tanzania,
     Togo, Turkey, Uganda and Venezuela. The types of persecution
     include domestic violence, rape, female genital mutilation, 
     forced marriage, sexual abuse, torture, gender-based discrimination, 
     and forced prostitution. The grounds for the asylum claims break
     down as follows: membership in a particular social group,
     political or imputed political opinion, religion and race.

Immigration Law (links to resources via JURIST: The Law Professors' Network)
Nancy C. Ciampa, "United States Asylum Law: The Failure of the United States to Accommodate Women's Gender-Based Asylum Claims", 2 ILSA Journal of International & Comparative Law 493 (1996)(via Nova Southeastern University Law School)
Center for Gender and Refugee Studies (CGRS, University of California Hastings College of the Law; provides links to resources on cases involving women asylum-seekers, including summaries and full texts of Gender Asylum Case Law (including unpublished decisions of immigration judges and the BIA, related documents and web sites)
International Gay & Lesbian Human Rights Commission (IGLHRC; "Achieving Human Rights & Freedoms for Sexual Minorities"; see also links to Human Rights Resources; covers immigration and asylum and refugee law)
Lesbian and Gay Immigration Rights Task Force (LGIRTF)
Denise Cafaro Hammond, "Immigration and Sexual Orientation: Developing Standards, Options, and Obstacles", 77 Interpreter Releases, January 24, 2000 (no.4). Discusses U.S. immgration law related to gay men and lesbian foreign nationals and summarized developments in other countries that can be used as a model for changes in U.S. law.
Elena Daniela Neacsu, Sexual Orientation As a Basis of Discrimination By the INS, Newsletter (Immigration and Nationality Committee, American Bar Association (ABA) International Law and Practice Section), January/February 2000, at 1-2 (v.3, #1).
Tracy J. Davis, Opening the Doors of Immigration: Sexual Orientation and Asylum in the United States, Human Rights Brief, v.6, no.3, at 19-20 (1999).
Eva N. Juncker, A Juxtaposition of U.S. Asylum Grants to Women Fleeing Female Genital Mutilation and to Gays and Lesbians Fleeing Physical Harm: The Need to Promulgate an INS Regulation for Women Fleeing Female Genital Mutilation, 4 Journal of International Legal Studies 253-281 (No.2, Summer 1998).
Heather McClure, Christopher Nugent, & Lavi Soloway, Preparing Sexual Orientation-Based Asylum Claims: A Handbook for Advocates and Asylum-Seekers (Heartland Alliance for Human Needs & Human Rights and the Lesbian and Gay Immigration Rights Task Force, 1998). 178p.
Shusterman Law Firm (includes e-mail bulletin)
Siskind Law Firm (includes e-mail bulletin)
Immigration Law (Franco Capriotti's site for teaching immigration law)
Immigration Lawyers on the Web (Bruce Hake's web site; includes link to Immigration Daily newsletter)
Immigration Unit (Greater Boston Legal Services (GBLS))
Immigrants' Rights Related Internet Resources (American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU))
National Network on Behalf of Battered Immigrant Women
Immigration Index (focuses on all matters relating to immigration and has resources relating to: asylum and refugees, conflict, country data, deportation, detention, discrimination, funding, gender, government, human rights, human trafficking, legal, media, migration and studies, with new categories, links and breaking news items being added on a regular basis)
Center for Immigration Studies (CIS; Washington, D.C.; includes CISNEWS, electronic news bulletin)
Center for Immigration Research (University of Houston; includes links to other Internet resources)
CISNEWS is an Internet mailing list on Immigration Policy operated by the Center for Immigration Studies in Washington, D.C.; it is for academics, policymakers, journalists, attorneys, activists and others. The 1,400 subscribers include most of the prominent figures in the field, on all sides of the issue. The list concentrates on the United States, but includes information from other countries; CISNEWS is a moderated list for announcements, news items, reviews, queries, etc. (Not just items from CIS, but from anyone who wishes to submit something for consideration.) There are 15 or so postings a week. To join the list, send e-mail to CISNEWS-request@cis.org with the message:
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Or go to:
http://mail.cis.org/guest/RemoteListSummary/CISNEWS or http://athena.minerva.net:8081/guest/RemoteListSummary/CISNEWS/ or http://www.cis.org/cisnews.htm (there is also This Week in Immigration, an electronic summary of immigration-related news and publications worldwide issued once a week)
IMMIGRATION, REFUGEE AND CITIZENSHIP LAW ABSTRACTS (electronic journal for publishing abstracts of working papers, forthcoming journal articles, and recently published articles dealing with the law of immigration, asylum, refugees, alienage, citizenship, nationality and naturalization in the United States and abroad; part of the Legal Scholarship Network (LSN) of the Social Science Research Network (SSRN); institutions can obtain site licenses via http://www.ssrn.com/update/lsn/lsn_site-licenses.html, but there is no charge for individual subscriptions; to subscribe, send an e-mail message to subscribe@publisher.ssrn.com with only the following text in the body of the message:
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International Migration Policy Program (IMPP, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (CEIP))
Midwest Immigrant Rights Center (MIRC; Travellers & Immigrants Aid/Chicago Connections, Heartland Alliance for Human Needs & Human Rights; including Mexico-U.S. Advocates Network initiative, "a binational project dedicated to improving communication and understanding between Mexican and U.S. non-governmental organizations concerned with the human rights and labor rights aspects of migration policy and developing vehicles for joint advocacy on those issues)
National Immigration Forum (NIF)
Mexican Migration Project (MMP; Mexican migration to the United States)
Central American Refugee Center (CARECEN)
Project on Internal Displacement (IDP; The Brookings Institution, Washington, D.C.)
European Forum for Migration Studies (EFMS)
Berghahn Books (Studies in Forced Migration Series; Refugee and Forced Migration Studies)
Migration Journals (ERCOMER WWW Virtual Library for Migration and Ethnic Relations)
Population Index (indexes journal articles from 1986 to date, including those related to migration)
Annual Review of Population Law (database contains summaries and excerpts of legislation, constitutions, court decisions, and other official government documents from every country in the world relating to population policies, reproductive health, women's rights, and related topics; it is produced jointly by Harvard Law School and the United Nations Population Fund; updated through 2000; hardcopy/print version has ceased publication)
Immigration News (Federal Publications Inc. page for Immigration Communique (news), Interpreter Releases, and Immigration Briefings)
Bender's Immigration Bulletin (a Matthew Bender bi-monthly newsletter - click on "Immigration Law" under "Channels")
Internet Resources on Immigrants, Refugees, and Immigration (The National Network for Immigrant and Refugee Rights (NNIRR))
Situation of gays and lesbians and their partners in respect to asylum and immigration in the member states of the Council of Europe (Draft Recommendation, Parliamentary Assembly, Council of Europe; Doc. 8654 25 February 2000, Report, Committee on Migration, Refugees and Demography; Rapporteur: Mrs Ruth-Gaby Vermot-Mangold)
UNHCR (United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees; links to the REFWORLD full-text database of international instruments and Refugee Case Law)
International Organization for Migration (IOM; migrant workers' rights; a schedule of meetings/conferences related to immigration, asylum and refugee law is available at http://www.iom.ch/meetings.htm; its "Migration Web" includes full texts of Migration Legislation - laws of countries worldwide - link broken as of 5/2002)
International Migration (Index to articles in No. 1/1961 to No.2/1998 of the journal)
Migration News Sheet (Migration Policy Group; includes reviews of asylum/refugee law developments in Europe (EU, ECHR, Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Hungary, the Netherlands, Nordic States, Switzerland, UK) and the U.S.; was at http://www.migpolgroup.com/)
Migration News (including summaries of laws)
Inter-Governmental Consultations on Asylum, Refugee and Migration Policies in Europe, North America and Australia (IGC; includes publications on asylum claims and procedures, plus has state asylum data and statistics)
International Centre for Migration Policy Development (ICMPD; joint initiative of Switzerland and Austria, with headquarters in Vienna)
International Organization for Migration (IOM; its "Migration Web" includes full texts of Migration Legislation - laws of countries worldwide)
EU Networks on Integration of Refugees in Europe (RefugeeNet, an ECRE-supported project)
European Union Tampere Summit Conclusions (European Council special meeting in October 1999 in Tampere, Finland, on immigration and refugee issues)
European Council on Refugees and Exiles (ECRE and European Legal Network on Asylum (ELENA)); was at http://www.ein.org.uk/ecre/)
Eurostat (population and social conditions statistics, including asylum-seekers and refugees; asylum applications statistics)
Asylum and Immigration Statistics (full texts of Asylum Statistics, UK and Control of Immigration: Statistics, UK from the Home Office's Research Development and Statistics Directorate)
Asylum Applications in Europe in 1999 (UNHCR Statistical Unit in collaboration with the Regional Bureau for Europe; by country of asylum and origin)
Populations of Concern to the UNHCR: A Statistical Overview (annual UNHCR publication; 1995, 1996, 1997 at web site as of 29 March 1998)
Populations of Concern to the UNHCR: A Statistical Overview. HV640.3.P67 Law
World Refugee Survey (U.S. Committee on Refugees). HV640.W63 Gen, Law
State of the World's Children (UNICEF; online version covers 1996, 1997, 1998 as of 13 May 1998). HQ792.2.S73 Gen, SSAd
The Progress of Nations (UNICEF; online version covers 1995, 1996, 1997 as of 13 May 1998).
State of the World's Refugees (UNHCR; online version covers 1993, 1995, 1997 as of 13 May 1998).
Electronic Discussion Groups and Journals
- ASYLUM-L (Legal Aspects of Asylum and Refugee Law; to subscribe, send e-mail to majordomo@ufsia.ac.be with only the following text in the body of the message:
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- FORCED-MIGRATION (Asylum and Refugee Law; internally displaced persons; immigration law; subscription was via e-mail to mailbase@mailbase.ac.uk with only the following text in the body of the message: join forced-migration Your Name; now subscribe via http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/forced-migration.html)
- IMMPROF (Immigration Law Professors; subscription restricted to professors who teach immigration law and upon approval by listowner; to subscribe, send e-mail to listproc@lists.colorado.edu with only the following text in the body of the message:
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- INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF REFUGEE LAW (can subscribe to electronic mailing list for distribution of table of contents of current issue)
  http://www.oup.co.uk/reflaw/
- INTIMMIGRATION (Immigration and Nationality Law list of the American Bar Association; to subscribe, send e-mail to listserv@abanet.org with only the following text in the body of the message:
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- REFUGEES-LIST (U.S. Committee for Refugees E-Mail Alert Network; to subscribe, send e-mail to majordomo@refugees.org with only the following text in the body of the message:
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  For other lists, check the list of lists on immigration, asylum and refugee issues from Lyo's Law Lists.