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21 Geo. Immigr. L.J. 431 (2006-2007)
The New Face of America's Refugees: African Refugee Resettlement to the United States

handle is hein.journals/geoimlj21 and id is 437 raw text is: NOTES THE NEW FACE OF AMERICA'S REFUGEES: AFRICAN REFUGEE RESETTLEMENT TO THE UNITED STATES HEmI H. BOAS* I. INTRODUCTION ..................................... 43 II. PRE-1980 RESETrLEMENT OF AFRICAN REFUGEES ................ 43 III. KEY ACTORS AND INFLUENCES ON U.S. RESETTLEMENT POLICY . . 43 IV. UNDERSTANDING THE UNITED STATES' DECISION TO INCREASE AFRICAN REFUGEE RESETILEMENT ...................... 44 A. The End of the Cold War ........................ 44 B. The Influence of Non-Governmental Organizations ..... 44 C. Leadership by the Congressional Black Caucus ........ 44 D. The Search for Large, Self-Contained Refugee Groups... 44 E. Conclusions ................................. 44 * Heidi H. Boas is a graduate of Boalt Hall School of Law (U.C. Berkeley, 2007) and Stanford University (2002). © 2007, Heidi H. Boas. As a 2007 Equal Justice Works Fellow, Ms. Boas will spend the next two years providing immigration legal services and outreach about domestic violence to the African immigrant and refugee community in Washington, D.C. Before law school, Ms. Boas conducted research in Kenya with refugee women living in Kakuma refugee camp (near the Sudan border) and in the urban slums of Nairobi. She also worked in Ghana, where she helped advocate for a new law to protect survivors of domestic violence. Ms. Boas has also interned with the office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees in Panama and with the Executive Office for Immigration Review in San Francisco. She would like to thank Kate Jastram, Lecturer in Refugee Law and Global Migration Issues at Boalt Hall, for her invaluable mentorship throughout the process of researching and writing this article.