African asylum at a crossroads : activism, expert testimony, and refugee rights /

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...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author:	JSTOR (Organization)
Other Authors:	Berger, Iris, 1941- (Editor)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Athens, Ohio : Ohio University Press, 2015.
Subjects:	Political refugees > Legal status, laws, etc. > Africa. Asylum, Right of > Africa. Evidence, Expert. POLITICAL SCIENCE > Political Freedom & Security > Human Rights. LAW > General. POLITICAL SCIENCE > Human Rights. Asylum, Right of. Political refugees > Legal status, laws, etc. Africa. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of 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.
10: The "Asylum-Advocacy Nexus" in Anthropological PerspectiveAFTERWORD; About the Authors; Index.