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Title African asylum at a crossroads : activism, expert testimony, and refugee rights / edited by Iris Berger [and four others] ; foreword by Penelope Andrews ; afterword by Fallou Ngom
Published Athens, Ohio : Ohio University Press, 2015

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 272 pages .)
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
Summary 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 the first to establish a rigorous analytical framework for interpreting the effects of this new reliance on expert testimony. Over the past two decades, courts in Western countries and beyond have begun demanding expert reports tailored to the experience of the individual claimant. As courts incre
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes This work is licensed under a Creative Commons license https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/legalcode
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Subject 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
Evidence, Expert
Political refugees -- Legal status, laws, etc.
Africa
Form Electronic book
Author Berger, Iris, 1941- editor.
LC no. 2015004840
ISBN 9780821445181
0821445189
9780821421383
0821421387