| Description |
1 online resource (282 pages) |
| Contents |
Cover; Half-title page; Title page; Copyright page; Contents; About the Contributors; Acknowledgments; Foreword; Introduction: Witness to the Persecution? Expertise, Testimony, and Consistency in Asylum Adjudication; Part I Sociocultural Inconsistency and the Contours of Expertise; 1 Reconstructing Babel: Bridging Cultural Dissonance between Asylum Seekers and Adjudicators; 2Recovering the Sociological Identity of Asylum Seekers: Language Analysis for Determining National Origin in the European Union |
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3Research and Testimony in the "Rape Capital of the World": Experts and Evidence in Congolese Asylum Claims 4Beyond Expert Witnessing: Interdisciplinary Practice in Representing Rape Survivors in Asylum Cases ; 5Anthropological Evidence and Country of Origin Information in British Asylum Courts; Part II Practices and Technologies for Medico-Psycho Expertise; 6Expert as Aid and Impediment: Navigating Barriers to Effective Asylum Representation ; 7Documenting Torture Sequelae: The Weill Cornell Model for Forensic Evaluation, Capacity Building, and Medical Education |
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8Incredible Until Proven Credible: Mental Health Expert Testimony and the Systemic and Cultural Challenges Facing Asylum Applicants 9Importing Forensic Biomedicine into Asylum Adjudication: Genetic Ancestry and Isotope Testing in the United Kingdom ; 10"Health Tourism" or "Atrocious Barbarism"? Contextualizing Migrant Agency, Expertise, and Medical Humanitarian Practice ; Afterword: Lisa Dornell; Index |
| Summary |
A comprehensive study offering the first comparative account of the increasing dependence on expertise in the asylum and refugee status determination process |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Asylum, Right of.
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Political refugees -- Legal status, laws, etc.
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Refugees -- Legal status, laws, etc.
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Evidence, Expert -- European Union countries
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Asylum, Right of -- Great Britain
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RELIGION -- Christian Life -- Social Issues.
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RELIGION -- Christianity -- General.
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Asylum, Right of
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Evidence, Expert
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Political refugees -- Legal status, laws, etc.
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Refugees -- Legal status, laws, etc.
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Great Britain.
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European Union.
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Refugees.
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Persecution.
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Testimony.
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Expertise.
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Right of asylum.
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Emigration and immigration.
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Immigration law.
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European Union countries
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Great Britain
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Lawrance, Benjamin N. (Benjamin Nicholas)
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Ruffer, Galya.
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| ISBN |
9781316204405 |
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1316204405 |
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9781107706460 |
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1107706467 |
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9781316206195 |
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131620619X |
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9781107688902 |
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1107688906 |
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