How National Self-Interest and Foreign Policy Continue To Influence the U.S. Refugee Admissions Program

Published in Fordham Law Review (2006)

This article posits that the US should allot the limited number of overseas refugee slots to victims of human rights abuses and those best served by a humanitarian response. In particular, resettlement in the United States should be prioritized for people that the US has harmed, as this would promote a broader and more enduring type of national self-interest than a policy that continues to politicize persecuted refugees.