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- Title
Female Asylum-Seekers in the Netherlands: An Empirical Study.
- Authors
van Wetten, Jos W.; Bijleveld, Catrien C.J.H.; Heide, F.; Dijkhoff, N.
- Abstract
This article presents the findings from a study into the chances for refugee status, or a temporary residence permit, for three cohorts of male and female asylum-seekers to the Netherlands. The study investigated whether men and women with similar backgrounds in terms of country of origin, social and demographic characteristics have a similar likelihood of obtaining permission to stay in the Netherlands. The quantitative findings are corroborated with an in-depth qualitative study of refugees' files from the Immigration and Naturalization Service (IND), as well as with an experiment in which decision-making personnel were asked to judge hypothetical case studies of refugees in which gender as well as other gender-specific properties were systematically varied. We recommend that further in-depth studies be conducted to capture elements in the decision-making process that could not be investigated in our kind of large-scale study.
- Subjects
NETHERLANDS; RIGHT of asylum; REFUGEES
- Publication
International Migration, 2001, Vol 39, Issue 3, p86
- ISSN
0020-7985
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/1468-2435.00157