Procedures for claiming asylum within Canada, acceptance and rejection
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Refugee System
The failures of a ‘model’ system: RSD in Canada
By: Hilary Evans Cameron In “The failures of a ‘model’ system: RSD in Canada” Hilary Evans Cameron critiques Canada’s refugee status determination (RSD) system, often praised as a global model. While the system has strengths, such as providing full hearings and legal representation, it also frequently produces inconsistent, unfair decisions. Adjudicators often make judgments based on flawed assumptions rather than evidence-based reasoning. Moreover, the system struggles with balancing the risk of rejecting genuine refugees versus
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The Battle for the Wrong Mistake: Error Preference and Risk Salience in Canadian Refugee Status Decision-making
By: Hilary Evans Cameron Canadian refugee status adjudicators must choose between two opposing bodies of law, one of which resolves doubt in the claimant’s favour and the other at the claimant’s expense. How do they decide which to prefer? How do they decide whether it would be better to risk accepting an unfounded claim or to risk rejecting a well-founded one? This paper explores one potentially relevant factor: the salience of the harms that decision-makers
