Here are several useful books, published by the American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA) and available from their web site, on topics related to international family law:
Australia Apologizes to Child Migrants
In a ceremony in Canberra this week, Prime Minister Kevin Rudd and opposition leader Malcolm Turnbull offered apologies for Australia’s treatment of the “Lost Innocents” – children who were sent forcibly from England to Australia to relieve burdens on England’s social welfare system – as well as other children placed in foster care and state institutions who were also subjected to neglect and abuse.
Domestic Violence and Political Asylum
After 14 years, the pathway to asylum in the United States for Rody Alvarado seems finally to have cleared, with the Obama Administration indicating this week in a filing in immigration court that it considers her to be eligible for asylum. This story in the New York Times by Julia Preston gives some of the background on the case and quotes Karen Musalo, director of the Center for Gender and Refugee Studies at Hastings College of Law, who has been Ms.
Multiracial Children in Postwar Germany
Here, from the English website of Der Spiegel, is an article that discusses the adoption of multiracial children born to German women in the years after World War II. The Difficult Identities of Postwar Black Children of GIs by Stephanie Siek tells the stories of a number of these children, now grown, and describes several organizations formed in recent years that have helped them to uncover their histories. A sidebar notes a book by a U.S.
Conferences on International Family Law at the French Cour de cassation
This announcement of two upcoming conferences in Paris was posted today by Gilles Cuniberti on conflictoflaws.net, with links to the conference programs:
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