Research Reports
November 2009
Denial and Delay: The Impact of the Immigration Law's "Terrorism Bars" on Refugees and Asylum Seekers in the United States, Human Rights First
January 11, 2007
The "Material Support" Problem: The Jewish Perspective
HIAS Policy Paper, Winter 2007
October 7, 2006
What is the scope of the Art.1.F(b) and 1.F(c) of the 1951 Geneva Convention relating to the Status of Refugees in relation to those taking no direct part, or indirect part, in the serious non-political crime or acts contrary to the purposes and principles of the UN? (pdf)
A Dissertation submitted by Richard Grindell in October 2006 as partial fulfillment of the LLM in International Human Rights Law at the University of Essex.
September 25, 2006
Abandoning the Persecuted: Victims of Terrorism and Oppression Barred From Asylum (pdf)
A Human Rights First report.
July 2006
Victims of Terror Stopped at the Gateway to Safety: The Impact of the Material Support to Terrorism Bar on Refugees (pdf)
Reprinted with permission from AILA's Immigration Law Today (July/August 2006 Issue).
May 15, 2006
Providing Material Support to a Foreign Terrorist Organization: The Pentagon, the Department of State, the People's Mujahedin of Iran, & The Global War on Terrorism (pdf)
By Margaret D. Stock, Associate Professor, U.S. Military Academy, West Point.
May 2006
Unintended Consequences: Refugee Victims of the War on Terror (pdf)
By Georgetown University Law Center.
April 2006
Terrorism and Asylum Seekers— Why the REAL ID Act is a False Promise (pdf)
By Marisa Silenzi Cianciarulo. Harvard article from the Harvard Journal on Legislation (JOL), Volume 43, Number 1, Winter 2006.
March 17, 2006
Material Support of Terrorists and Foreign Terrorist Organizations: Sunset Provisions (pdf)
By Charles Doyle, Congressional Research Service.
March 13, 2006
The Ever-Expanding Material Support Bar: An Unjust Obstacle for Refugees and Asylum Seekers (pdf)
Interpreter Releases article by Susan Benesch, Amnesty International USA, and Devon Chafee, Georgetown University Law Center.
February 2006
Preliminary Findings and Conclusions on the Material Support for Terrorism Bar As Applied to the Overseas Resettlement of Refugees From Burma (pdf)
Harvard study based on continuing research and a January 2006 field investigation by The Immigration and Refugee Clinic & The International Human Rights Clinic, Human Rights Program, Harvard Law School.
January 2006
Admission Denied: in Support of a Duress Exception to the Immigration and Nationality Act's "Material Support for Terrorism" Provision (pdf)
Report by Gregory F. Laufer, Cornell Law School.
December 5, 2005
The "Material Support" Problem: an Uncertain Future for Thousands of Refugees and Asylum Seekers (pdf)
Bender's Immigration Bulletin article by Melanie Nezer, HIAS.
