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Well-Founded Fear is a 2000 documentary film from directors Shari Robertson and Michael Camerini.The film takes its title from the formal definition of a refugee under the UN Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees, as a person who deserves protection, "owing to a well-founded fear of persecution for reasons of race, religion, nationality, membership of a particular social group or ...
With respect to asylum, because Congress employed different language in the asylum statute and incorporated the refugee definition from the international Convention relating to the Status of Refugees, the Court in Cardoza-Fonseca reasoned that the standard for showing a well-founded fear of persecution must necessarily be lower.
A 2017 paper by Evans and Fitzgerald found that refugees to the United States pay "$21,000 more in taxes than they receive in benefits over their first 20 years in the U.S." [48] An internal study by the Department of Health and Human Services under the Trump administration, which was suppressed and not shown to the public, found that refugees ...
An asylum seeker may have applied for Convention refugee status or for complementary forms of protection. Asylum is thus a category that includes different forms of protection. Which form of protection is offered depends on the legal definition that best describes the asylum seeker's reasons to flee. Once the decision was made the asylum seeker ...
As a result of events occurring before 1 January 1951 and owing to well-founded fear of being persecuted for reasons of race, religion, nationality, membership of a particular social group or political opinion, is outside the country of his nationality and is unable or, owing to such fear, is unwilling to avail himself of the protection of that ...
Before asylum is granted, an asylum seeker may be recognized as a refugee according to the Convention relating to the Status of Refugees, which defines refugee as a person "who is unable or unwilling to return to their country of origin owing to a well-founded fear of being persecuted for reasons of race, religion, nationality, membership of a ...
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Asylum applicants must show "well-founded fear" of persecution to establish their eligibility Keystone Bituminous Coal Ass'n v. Debenedictus: 480 U.S. 470 (1987) substantive due process, the takings clause of the 5th Amendment: O'Connor v. Ortega: 480 U.S. 709 (1987) Fourth Amendment rights of public employees Tison v. Arizona: 481 U.S. 137 (1987)