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1 online resource (xiv, 272 pages .) |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Print version record. |
| Contents |
Foreword; Preface and Acknowledgments; Introduction: Law, Expertise, and Protean Ideas about African Migrants; 1: Before Asylum and the Expert Witness; 2: Fraudulent Asylum Seeking as Transnational Mobilization[18]; 3: The Evolving Refugee Definition; 4: Expert Evidence in British Asylum Courts; 5: "The Immigration People Know the Stories. There's One for Each Country"; 6: Cultural Silences as an Excuse for Injustice; 7: Between Advocacy and Deception; 8: Allegations, Evidence, and Evaluation; 9: Sexual Minorities among African Asylum Claimants. |
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10: The "Asylum-Advocacy Nexus" in Anthropological PerspectiveAFTERWORD; About the Authors; Index. |
| Summary |
African Asylum at a Crossroads: Activism, Expert Testimony, and Refugee Rights examines the emerging trend of requests for expert opinions in asylum hearings or refugee status determinations. This is the first book to explore the role of court-based expertise in relation to African asylum cases and the first to establish a rigorous analytical framework for interpreting the effects of this new reliance on expert testimony. Over the past two decades, courts in Western countries and beyond have begun demanding expert reports tailored to the experience of the individual claimant. As courts incre. |
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Political refugees -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- Africa.
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Asylum, Right of -- Africa.
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Evidence, Expert.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Freedom & Security -- Human Rights.
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LAW -- General.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Human Rights.
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Asylum, Right of. (OCoLC)fst00819842
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Evidence, Expert. (OCoLC)fst00917231
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Political refugees -- Legal status, laws, etc.
(OCoLC)fst01069693
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Africa. (OCoLC)fst01239509
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| Added Author |
Berger, Iris, 1941- editor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: African asylum at a crossroads 9780821421383 (DLC) 2015004840 (OCoLC)895302199 |
| ISBN |
9780821445181 (electronic bk.) |
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0821445189 (electronic bk.) |
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9780821421383 |
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0821421387 |
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