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  title info:
    title: Well-founded fear
  title info:
    title: Political asylum in the United States
  title info:
    title: POV (Television program)
  name:
    name part: Robertson, Shari
    role:
      role term: film director,
    role:
      role term: film producer.
    role:
      role term: fmd
    role:
      role term: fmp
  name:
    name part: Camerini, Michael
    role:
      role term: film director,
    role:
      role term: cinematographer,
    role:
      role term: film producer.
    role:
      role term: fmd
    role:
      role term: cng
    role:
      role term: fmp
  name:
    name part: Schmeer, Karen
    role:
      role term: film editor.
    role:
      role term: flm
  name:
    name part: Osborn, Christopher
    name part: 1969-
    role:
      role term: film editor.
    role:
      role term: flm
  name:
    name part: Pancrazi, Suzanne
    role:
      role term: film editor.
    role:
      role term: flm
  name:
    name part: Suozzo, Mark
    role:
      role term: composer.
    role:
      role term: cmp
  name:
    name part: Epidavros Project Inc
    role:
      role term: production company.
    role:
      role term: prn
  type of resource: moving image
  genre: videorecording
  genre: Documentary films
  genre: Educational films
  genre: Internet videos
  genre: Nonfiction films
  genre: Documentary films.
  genre: Educational films.
  genre: Nonfiction films.
  genre: Television programs.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2000
    copyright date: 2000
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  language:
    language term: chi
  language:
    language term: alb
  language:
    language term: fre
  language:
    language term: rus
  language:
    language term: spa
  language:
    language term: chi
  language:
    language term: alb
  language:
    language term: fre
  language:
    language term: rus
  language:
    language term: spa
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (1 streaming video file (approximately 119 min. 54 sec.) : sound, color
  abstract: 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, plus their translators and lawyers. It is the task of the asylum officer to identify where there exists a "well-founded fear" that an applicant's life may be placed in jeopardy by deportation. But with thousands of applicants, and with the number of fraudulent cases perhaps equaling the number of legitimate cases, the officers acknowledge that truth and justice are elusive and that subjectivity can play a decisive hand in their evaluations. While including horrific testimonials of torture and grievous accounts of loss, the film also demonstrates that the outcome can be impacted by personality and prejudice, by an officer's level of experience (with naiveté easily morphing into cynicism), by the applicant's credibility, and even by an interpreter's translation of a testimony.
  target audience: Not rated. Has some oral recounting of torture and violence.
  note: a film by Shari Robertson, Michael Camerini.
  note: Title and statement of responsibility from opening credits.
  note: Originally produced as a documentary in 2000. Television broadcast premiere on PBS: in the "P.O.V." (Point of View) series, 2000 June 5.
  note: Some oral translation by the applicants' translators on-screen differs from text of translation in subtitles..
  note: "Every person who agreed to be filmed gave up the protection of ... confidentiality to help tell this story."--Opening credits.
  note: This streaming version lacks special features of some videodiscs such as "The hazards of translation" (outtake).
  note: On-screen participants include asylum seekers Huang Xiang and Yung and Shao Po and Xujing X. (of China), Gjerji C. and Altin (of Albania), Cristian J. and Ana Maria (of Romania), Boris (of Russia), Gladys C. (of El Salvador), Farida (of Algeria), and A. (of Nigeria).
  note: On-screen participants include INS asylum officers and supervisors Charlene C., Ed, Gerald B., Jim, Kevin, Martha-Louise, Rob, Todd, Larry, Marlene A., Peter, and Wally.
  note: On-screen participants also include an attorney (Victoria) and several translators for asylum seekers.
  note: "Edit translators, Arif Amin" and 26 others.--Closing credits.
  note: Also present on-screen are some INS support staff.
  note: Streaming video; aspect ratio 1.66:1.
  note: Mode of access: World Wide Web.
  note: 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.
  note: Produced and directed by Shari Robertson and Michael Camerini ; edited by Karen Schmeer, Christopher Osborn, Suzanne Pancrazi ; camera, Michael Camerini ; music composed and conducted by Mark Suozzo ; sound, John Dildine.
  note: Sundance Film Festival nominee for Grand Jury Prize for Best Documentary, 2000.
  note: San Francisco International Film Festival, 2000: Certificate of Merit in Film & Video--Current Events.
  subject:
    geographic code: n-us---
  subject:
    name:
      name part: United States.
      name part: Immigration and Naturalization Service.
  subject:
    name:
      name part: United States.
      name part: Immigration and Naturalization Service
    topic: Officials and employees
  subject:
    topic: Political refugees
    topic: Legal status, laws, etc
    geographic: United States
  subject:
    topic: Asylum, Right of
    geographic: United States
  subject:
    topic: Emigration and immigration law
    geographic: United States
  subject:
    geographic: United States
    topic: Emigration and immigration
    topic: Government policy
  subject:
    topic: Noncitizens
    geographic: United States
  subject:
    topic: Refugees
    geographic: United States
  subject:
    topic: Immigrants
    topic: Rating of
  subject:
    topic: Truthfulness and falsehood
  subject:
    topic: Interviewing
    topic: Technique
  subject:
    topic: Interviews
    geographic: United States
  subject:
    topic: Government investigators
    geographic: United States
  subject:
    geographic: United States
    topic: Officials and employees
  subject:
    topic: Administrative remedies
    geographic: United States
  subject:
    topic: Immigration courts
    geographic: United States
  subject:
    topic: Job stress
    geographic: United States
  subject:
    topic: Repression (Psychology)
  subject:
    topic: Threat (Psychology)
  subject:
    topic: Fear
    topic: Social aspects
  subject:
    topic: Decision making
    geographic: United States
  subject:
    topic: Cynicism
    geographic: United States
  subject:
    topic: Noncitizens
    topic: Interviews
    topic: Translating
    geographic: United States
  classification: KF4836 .W45 2000
  classification: 342.0830973
  identifier: http://proxy.library.tamu.edu/login

topic: Translating and interpreting
topic: Social aspects
geographic: United States

topic: Translating and interpreting
topic: Errors

topic: Translators
geographic: United States

topic: Confidential communications
geographic: United States

topic: Droit d'asile
geographic: États-Unis

geographic: États-Unis
topic: Émigration et immigration
topic: Politique gouvernementale

topic: Immigrants clandestins
geographic: États-Unis

topic: Réfugiés
geographic: États-Unis

topic: Entretiens
geographic: États-Unis

topic: Enquêteurs de la fonction publique
geographic: États-Unis

geographic: États-Unis
topic: Fonctionnaires

topic: Recours administratifs
geographic: États-Unis

topic: Tribunaux d'immigration
geographic: États-Unis

topic: Souvenirs retrouvés

topic: Refoulement (Psychologie)

topic: Menace (Psychologie)

topic: Peur
topic: Aspect social

topic: Objectivité

topic: Incertitude
topic: Prise de décision

topic: Prise de décision
geographic: États-Unis

topic: Cynisme
geographic: États-Unis

topic: Erreurs

topic: Faillibilité

topic: Secret professionnel
geographic: États-Unis

name:
  name part: United States.
  name part: Immigration and Naturalization Service

topic: Asylum, Right of

topic: Political refugees
topic: Legal status, laws, etc

geographic: United States

record content source: FQG
record creation date: 220216
record change date: 20260720183542.4
record identifier: in00005788715
language of cataloging:
  language term: eng