This blog focuses primarily on the issue of migration of skilled and educated persons from developing countries to developed countries, a phenomenon popularly called "brain drain." The term "STEP OUT" migration comes from our recent book, Stepping Out of the Brain Drain: Applying Catholic Social Teaching in a New Era of Migration, and is an acronym for Scientific, Technical, and Educated Professionals Out of Underdeveloped Territories. We seek to replace in the scholarly and popular literature the imprecise and decidedly biased term "brain drain" with an alternative and more appropriate terminology.
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- Rules Are Made To Be Broken: How the Process of Expedited Removal Fails Asylum Seekers (with John Hoeffner), 20 Geo. Immigr. L.J. 167 (2006)
- The Devil in the Details: How Specific Should Catholic Social Teaching Be?, 2 J. Catholic Social Thought 507 (2004)
- The New Asylum Rule: Improved but Still Unfair, 16 Geo. Immigr. L.J. 1 (2001)
- Assessing the Proposed Refugee Protection Act: One Step in the Right Direction, 14 Geo. Immigr. L.J. 815 (2000)
- Justice Delayed is Justice Denied: A Proposal for Ending the Unnecessary Detention of Asylum Seekers, 12 Harv. Hum. Rts. J. 197 (1999)
- New Asylum Laws: Undermining an American Ideal, CATO Institute, Policy Analysis No. 299 (1998), reprinted in 3 Bender’s Immigration Bulletin 496 (1998)
- Revisiting APSO: Improving the System for Releasing Genuine Asylum Seekers from Detention, Refugee Reports, August 30, 1996, at 11
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