ISU DOCUMENT FRAUD DALAM FENOMENA PENCARI SUAKA: STUDI KASUS IMIGRAN INDONESIA DI AMERIKA SERIKAT TAHUN 1998 – 2010

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.