Center for Immigration Studies

Refugees & Asylum

Assistance for Elderly and Disabled Refugees
U.S. House Committee on Ways and Means, Subcommittee on Income Security and Family Support, March 22, 2007
Statement by Mark Krikorian, Executive Director

A New Era of Refugee Resettlement
By Don Barnett
Center for Immigration Studies Backgrounder, December 2006

Refugee Resettlement and 'Freedom of Choice': The Case of Soviet Jewry
By Fred A. Lazin
Center for Immigration Studies Backgrounder, June 2005

Out of Africa: Somali Bantu and the Paradigm Shift in Refugee Resettlement
   By Don Barnett
   Center for Immigration Studies Backgrounder, October 2003
   .pdf version

U.S.-Canada Safe Third Country Agreement
U.S. House Judiciary Committee Subcommittee on Immigration, Border Security, and Claims, October 16, 2002
Statement by Mark Krikorian, Executive Director

Threats to National Security: The Asylum System, The Visa Lottery, and 245(i)
U.S. House Judiciary Committee Subcommittee on Immigration, Border Security, and Claims, October 9, 2002
Statement by Steven Camarota, Director of Research

Canada's Asylum System: A Threat to American Security?
   By James Bissett
   Center for Immigration Studies Backgrounder, May 2002
   pdf version

The Coming Conflict Over Asylum: Does America Need a New Asylum Policy?
By Don Barnett
Center for Immigration Studies Backgrounder, March 2002

The 1995 Asylum Reforms: A Historic and Global Perspective
   By David A. Martin
   Center for Immigration Studies Backgrounder, May 2000
   pdf version

Here to Stay: There's Nothing as Permanent as a Temporary Refugee
   By Mark Krikorian
   Center for Immigration Studies Backgrounder, August 1999
   pdf version

Mark Krikorian's 1999 congressional testimony on the history of temporary protection
Homosexuals and Immigration: Developments in the United States and Abroad
   By James R. Edwards Jr.
   Center for Immigration Studies Backgrounder, May 1999
   pdf version

Show Me the Money: How Government Funding Has Corrupted Refugee Resettlement
   By Don Barnett
   Center for Immigration Studies Backgrounder, April 1999
   pdf version

"Religion-based Refugee Admission"
By Don Barnett
pp. 1, 6-8 in Immigration Review no. 31, Spring 1998
pdf version

H.R. 2531
U.S. House Immigration Subcommittee, March 24, 1998
Statement by Mark Krikorian, Executive Director

Who Deserves Asylum?
By Mark Krikorian
Commentary, June 1996

Estimated First Year Public Assistance and Education Costs: 1991 Immigrants, Refugees and Other Settlers Projected Under House Immigration Reform Bill (HR 4300)
Center for Immigration Studies Backgrounder, September 1990