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Author Ngin, ChorSwang

Title Identities on trial in the United States : asylum seekers from Asia / ChorSwang Ngin
Published Lanham : Lexington Books, [2018]

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Description 1 online resource
Series Crossing Borders in a Global World: Applying Anthropology to Migration, Displacement, and Social Change
Crossing Borders in a Global World: Applying Anthropology to Migration, Displacement, and Social Change
Contents Foreword / David W. Haines -- Introduction : the asylum seeker as the anthropological figure of the twenty-first century -- I don't need your bones to know your race -- How much Chinese should a Chinese be? -- Racialization and persecution -- A student protester from a Myanmar prison -- A Buddhist monk, a Catholic woman, a Christian pastor -- Did Jesus walk through a field of wheat or a field of grass? / co-authored with Joann Yeh -- An apostate from Indonesia : a convert from Islam to Catholicism -- Ethnographic details as evidence on rape and pregnancy -- Without evidence and without witness -- Dowry dispute : a case for the law firm of Seyfarth Shaw -- A filial daughter's love of Falun Gong exercises -- Her forced abortion was a frivolous claim -- Double tragedy : Mr. Song's humiliation or embarrassment? -- Article I courts in a world of uncertainties / co-authored with Joann Yeh -- An anthropologist in the courtroom / co-authored with Joann Yeh
Summary Identities on Trial in the United States radically shifts the asylum seeker narrative by focusing on rarely heard stories of persecution and escape from China and Southeast Asia. ChorSwang Ngin, with contributions from immigration attorney, Joann Yeh, explores asylum seeker cases through an anthropological and legal lens
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher
Subject Asylum, Right of -- United States.
Asians -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- United States
Immigration enforcement -- United States
Administrative courts -- United States
Forensic anthropology -- United States
LAW / Constitutional
LAW / Public
Administrative courts
Asians -- Legal status, laws, etc.
Asylum, Right of
Forensic anthropology
Immigration enforcement
United States
Form Electronic book
Author Yeh, Joann, author
LC no. 2018033882
ISBN 9781498574747
1498574742