Michael Kagan

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  * American lawyer Michael Kagan is both RSDWatch.org's website manager and an instructor at the Tel Aviv University Refugee Rights Clinic.

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  Published on: 11/1/2008    Last Visited: 11/29/2008  

  "Barbara, in building organizations, tends to create, and thrive [...] in kind of a glorious chaos, that is sort of her natural habitat," says Michael Kagan, senior international human rights law fellow at AUC and former program director of AMERA.
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  "Most of us who work with refugees will tend to see a refugee as part of a larger phenomenon and because we are always strained, it's hard for us to ever look at a refugee as a person," says Kagan.
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  "She challenges everybody, she pisses everybody off and she makes everybody a better refugee advocate," says Kagan.
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  Harrell,Bond's critiques were truly groundbreaking and have changed the way people think about and treat refugees, Kagan says.
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  "You can't understand Barbara until you've sat in her living room and heard her berate a refugee for the choices they made, for refugees adopting a position of dependency," says Kagan, repeating a story Harrell,Bond tells about herself where she scolds a group of refugees who were protesting near a water source, demanding that the UN build them a watering hole.
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  It's not Barbara's fault," says Kagan.

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  "Once a country has so quickly broken red lines and started to slide downward, it is very difficult to know how far it will slide and how fast," says Michael Kagan, Senior Fellow in Human Rights at the American University in Cairo (AUC).
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  "Eritrea has become by some accounts the most totalitarian state in Africa," Kagan says.
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  "Eritrea is repressive enough that merely leaving the country and seeking asylum abroad can have you perceived as being disloyal to the government," Kagan says.
  
  As a result, Eritreans have been fleeing the country en masse, primarily to Ethiopia and Sudan.
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  "They don't have the legal right to work; they essentially depend on humanitarian aid from the UN and a network of churches and NGOs for their basic needs," says Kagan.
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  "Before August of last year, I couldn't have pointed to a single case of documented deportation of a refugee under UNHCR protection in Egypt," says Kagan.
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  "The Egyptian government has been very secretive about what it is doing and has not felt any compulsion to give a public explanation for its policy," Kagan says.

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  Published on: 7/22/2007    Last Visited: 11/13/2008  

  People are being killed for migration control and that is unusual and very, very worrisome," said Michael Kagan, a senior fellow in human rights law at the American University in Cairo.
  
  Egypt has defended its methods, saying the growing number of illegal border crossings jeopardizes security. An Egyptian security official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he wasn't authorized to speak to the media, described the situation as a "challenge" but sees "success."

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  By MICHAEL KAGAN GUEST COLUMNIST
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  Michael Kagan, from Port Ludlow, is policy director of the U.S.-based international refugee rights group Asylum Access.

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  Michael Kagan, Esq Policy Director

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  Published on: 10/14/2008    Last Visited: 10/14/2008  

  Michael Kagan, a senior fellow in human rights law at the American University of Cairo, said "UNHCR headquarters has yet to set clear guidelines for credibility assessments."

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  "Once a country has so quickly broken red lines and started to slide downward, it is very difficult to know how far it will slide and how fast," says Michael Kagan, Senior Fellow in Human Rights at the American University in Cairo (AUC).
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  "Eritrea has become by some accounts the most totalitarian state in Africa," Kagan says.
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  "Eritrea is repressive enough that merely leaving the country and seeking asylum abroad can have you perceived as being disloyal to the government," Kagan says.
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  "They don't have the legal right to work; they essentially depend on humanitarian aid from the UN and a network of churches and NGOs for their basic needs," says Kagan.
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  "Before August of last year, I couldn't have pointed to a single case of documented deportation of a refugee under UNHCR protection in Egypt," says Kagan.
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  "The Egyptian government has been very secretive about what it is doing and has not felt any compulsion to give a public explanation for its policy," Kagan says.

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  Published on: 9/19/2005    Last Visited: 6/23/2008  

  In a recent column, RSDWatch founder Michael Kagan wrote, "If UNHCR allowed applicants to view their own files, it would pull the wizard from behind the screen.

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  Published on: 11/21/2008    Last Visited: 1/4/2009  

  Michael Kagan, a senior fellow in human rights law at the American University in Cairo, is critical of how the Egyptian government and UNHCR address the refugee issue.
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  However, Kagan says those policies are at the root of the smuggling problem.
  
  "There has been a policy in Egypt by the UNHCR for the last several years that contributes to the despair which is one cause of this migration, and that policy has been a turning away from third country resettlement despite Egyptian policies that hinder full integration and the fact that many asylum seekers cannot repatriate," he says.
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  Many of those were barred from presenting claims to the UNHCR, a violation of their rights under international law, Kagan said.
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  Kagan agrees that Egypt's use of force on the border appears to be in response to international pressure, but says that international pressure may be the best way to stop it.
  
  "Egypt may think that using violence to control the border is an appropriate response to international pressure," he says.

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