LEADER 03418 am 22006853u 450 001 9910316454203321 005 20230922192550.0 010 $a0-8214-4518-9 035 $a(CKB)3710000000421543 035 $a(EBL)2055233 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001481286 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12633188 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001481286 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11517941 035 $a(PQKB)11661729 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC2055233 035 $a(ScCtBLL)42703268-e8e5-498a-bbd9-86e03913f77e 035 $a(oapen)https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/26923 035 $a(PPN)272833096 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000421543 100 $a20190119d2015 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 00$aAfrican asylum at a crossroads $eactivism, expert testimony, and refugee rights /$fedited by Iris Berger [and four others] ; foreword by Penelope Andrews ; afterword by Fallou Ngom 210 $cOhio University Press$d2015 210 1$aAthens, Ohio :$cOhio University Press,$d2015. 215 $a1 online resource (465 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-8214-2138-7 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aForeword; 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 327 $a10: The "Asylum-Advocacy Nexus" in Anthropological PerspectiveAFTERWORD; About the Authors; Index 330 $aAfrican 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 606 $aPolitical refugees$xLegal status, laws, etc$zAfrica 606 $aAsylum, Right of$zAfrica 606 $aEvidence, Expert 610 $aPolitical Science 610 $ahuman rights 610 $alaw 610 $aAfrican studies 610 $arefugee rights 615 0$aPolitical refugees$xLegal status, laws, etc. 615 0$aAsylum, Right of 615 0$aEvidence, Expert. 676 $a342.6083 686 $aPOL035010$aLAW000000$2bisacsh 700 $aBerger$b Iris$4edt$0662499 702 $aBerger$b Iris$f1941- 702 $aAndrews$b Penelope 702 $aNgom$b Fallou 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910316454203321 996 $aAfrican asylum at a crossroads$93560743 997 $aUNINA