Exam 4: Economics of Seeking Asylum

What are the three types of emergency situations that may cause people to flee their homes and seek asylum in another area or country?

What international agreement relates to statelessness?

What are some of the costs of the person's seeking asylum?

When is a person considered stateless?

What are some of the reasons a person may decide to seek asylum in another area or country?

When may a person apply for asylum in the United States?

What happens to the frequency distribution of skills when inequality changes in the home country?

How is the affirmative asylum process different from the defensive asylum process in the United States?

What is the difference between credible fear and reasonable fear?

What are the three main international policy instruments governing the rights and obligations of seeking asylum?

What are some situations in which a person may not be granted asylum in the United States?

How could detention during asylum seeking lead to human rights violation?

What is the purpose of the United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR)?

How does immigrant-native skill complementarity affect productivity?

What are the two main opposing viewpoints in regard to seeking asylum?

What are internally displaced persons (IDPs)?

According to the Roy Model, what happens to the makeup of immigrants to the more developed country when income changes in the home country?

How did the Hart-Celler Act (Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965) change the way the United States allocated immigration quotas?

What are some of the costs of remaining in the home country that lead to an individual's seeking asylum?

How does human trafficking create a barrier to receiving asylum?