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Lara Nettelfield

Lara Nettelfield
Senior Lecturer at the Institute for the Study of Human Rights at Columbia University
Migration

We Need Racial and Legal Equality in the US Asylum System Too

June 20, 2020 • by Lara Nettelfield and Rebecca Kobrin
Saturday, June 20 is World Refugee Day, honored by the United Nations to raise awareness and educate the public about refugees, their basic rights, their situation around the world, and the responsibilities of states to grant them asylum. The spontaneous protest movement that has engulfed the United States, after millions of ...
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