Isu Document Fraud dalam Fenomena Pencari Suaka: Studi Kasus Imigran Indonesia di Amerika Serikat

Abstract

The flows of Indonesian immigrants in United States experienced significant growth,
especially in the 1980s until the beginning of the 21st century. Starting from the 2000s
there was a growing trend among Indonesian immigrants to obtain United States
permanent resident status through seeking asylum. This study will explain the crime in the
form of document fraud committed by Indonesian immigrants in the United States in order
of obtaining asylum. This study uses the transnational crime theory to explain analyze the
effort of Indonesian immigrants who uses document fraud during process of getting
asylum as a form of transnational crime. The data collected in this study varied ranging
from primary sources which obtained through interviews, and from secondary sources
which obtained from literature reviews, official government documents, and media in
which were then analyzed through content analysis. The results of this study indicate that
majority of Indonesian immigrants who seek asylum from the United States uses document
fraud during the process of applying the status.