Well-founded fear /

Documentary about the American asylum system that takes viewers within the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) (pre-9/11), where bureaucrats ponder the sometimes life-or-death fate of immigrants seeking asylum. Includes confidential conversations between asylum officers and refugees, p...

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Main Author:	Suozzo, Mark (Composer)
Other Authors:	Camerini, Michael (Cinematographer), Schmeer, Karen (Film editor), Osborn, Christopher, 1969- (Film editor), Pancrazi, Suzanne (Film editor)
Format:	Video
Language:	English Chinese Albanian French Russian Spanish
Language Notes:	Narration and much dialog In English. Some interviewees speak in Albanian, Chinese, French, Russian, or Spanish, and most are supplied orally with contemporaneous approximate translation. All the oral English is also represented in an optional transcript sidebar. The non-English dialog is accompanied by English subtitles.
Published:	[New York, N.Y.] : Epidavros Project, [2000]
Subjects:	United States. > Immigration and Naturalization Service. United States. > Immigration and Naturalization Service > Officials and employees. Political refugees > Legal status, laws, etc. > United States. Asylum, Right of > United States. Emigration and immigration law > United States. United States > Emigration and immigration > Government policy. Noncitizens > United States. Refugees > United States. Immigrants > Rating of. Truthfulness and falsehood. Interviewing > Technique. Interviews > United States. Government investigators > United States. United States > Officials and employees. Administrative remedies > United States. Immigration courts > United States. Job stress > United States. Repression (Psychology) Threat (Psychology) Fear > Social aspects. Decision making > United States. Cynicism > United States. Noncitizens > Interviews > Translating > United States. Translating and interpreting > Social aspects > United States. Translating and interpreting > Errors. Translators > United States. Confidential communications > United States. Droit d'asile > États-Unis. États-Unis > Émigration et immigration > Politique gouvernementale. Immigrants clandestins > États-Unis. Réfugiés > États-Unis. Entretiens > États-Unis. Enquêteurs de la fonction publique > États-Unis. États-Unis > Fonctionnaires. Recours administratifs > États-Unis. Tribunaux d'immigration > États-Unis. Souvenirs retrouvés. Refoulement (Psychologie) Menace (Psychologie) Peur > Aspect social. Objectivité. Incertitude > Prise de décision. Prise de décision > États-Unis. Cynisme > États-Unis. Erreurs. Faillibilité. Secret professionnel > États-Unis. United States. > Immigration and Naturalization Service Asylum, Right of Political refugees > Legal status, laws, etc. United States Documentary films Educational films Internet videos Nonfiction films Documentary films. Educational films. Nonfiction films. Television programs.
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