Political affiliation affects asylum – Today’s News

     
     
     
 
 
     
 

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         Graphics from the echo shows that the lay judges batch color affect asylum cases in immigration courts. Photo: Screenshot from SR.se
     

     
 

 
         

         

                 

The lay judges partisan affiliation of the migration courts can influence whether an asylum seeker allowed to stay in Sweden or not, according to the echo. The probability of obtaining asylum reduced if there is an SD juror in court – and increase of KD participate, according to new research.

                 
             

                         
         
         
         
 
         
         

             
                 
                 

                     

 

lay judges partisan affiliation of the migration courts can influence whether an asylum seeker allowed to stay in Sweden or not, according to the echo. The probability of obtaining asylum reduced if there is an SD juror in court – and increase of KD participate, according to new research.

– These findings suggest that there is a random factor in these decisions. For the individual, this means that anyone who decides if you get asylum or not will affect the likelihood that you get it. And it must be for the individual appear as rättsosäkert says Linna Mart, an economist at the University of Uppsala behind the study, to echo.

The study covers more than 15,500 asylum rulings by immigration courts in Malmö Gothenburg and Stockholm, between 2011 and 2013 in which jurors participated. The conclusion is that there is a statistical link between the number of people granted asylum and the political party mentioned the men belong, reports echo.

 
        
             

     
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The Migration Board rejected changes in the average migration courts 13 percent of cases. But to get asylum varies between 9.5 and 15 percent, depending on the lay judges of party affiliation. The lowest probability is that in cases when the Sweden Democrats sit in court and highest probability of approval when jurors are nominated by the Christian Democrats. While the Green Party and Left Party participating in any more positive decisions than average, according to the echo.

It examined other variables of lay judges, such as gender, age and non-Nordic background, but they gave no effect on the outcome.

Lay judges are appointed by political parties in municipal and county councils, but should be apolitical in the law.