The Center for Gender & Refugee Studies (CGRS) is a leading voice in the movement to rebuild the U.S. asylum system and expand access to protection for women, children, LGBTQ+ people, and others seeking refuge. Our Policy & Advocacy team serves as a critical resource on asylum to policymakers, journalists, and the public. We provide rapid analysis of policy developments and offer practical recommendations for decision-makers at all levels of government, advising our leaders on how to ensure the United States lives up to its legal and moral commitments to people fleeing persecution.
This memo outlines the ways in which the legislative proposals advanced by Senators Lankford and Cotton during budget negotiations would violate U.S. obligations to refugees under international law.
We joined a letter to President Biden urging the administration to reject funding and policy proposals that would eviscerate access to asylum.
Este documento examina los vacíos legales en las políticas de los Estados Unidos para enfrentar la migración climática y el potencial del proceso Cartagena +40 para abordar el desplazamiento climático en las Américas
This policy memo reviews seven existing and potential legal and policy options for improving the United States’ response to people fleeing across international borders in the context of the adverse effects of climate change and disasters.
This paper examines seven existing and potential legal and policy options for improving the United States’ response to people fleeing across international borders in the context of the adverse effects of climate change and disasters.
This factsheet explains that the treaty obligations underpinning U.S. asylum law should be used in all contexts from individual representation to administrative rulemaking and statutory reform.
Debido a los cambios en las tendencias migratorias, CGRS y 25 organizaciones firmamos una carta reconociendo la importancia de que los paises de las Américas se unan desde un enfoque coordinado sobre la inmigración y la protección de los derechos humanos.
This chapter in the "Research Handbook on Child Migration" analyzes how the refugee definition properly applies in children’s asylum cases and how governments can better protect children from harm.
We submitted our analysis of the government's final "asylum ban" rule, which bars from asylum most people seeking protection at the U.S. southern border. Our comment urges the agencies to withdraw the rule in its entirety.
CGRS, UC Law SF students, and partners at the Catholic Law School of Jeremie investigate conditions in the prison in Jeremie, Haiti, finding grave violations of human rights and offering recommendations for restoring them.