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[null,null,"Autore",null,"Berger Iris"]
[null,null,"Titolo",null,"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"]
[null,null,"Pubbl/distr/stampa",null,"Ohio University Press, 2015"]
[{"$nulls":4},"Athens, Ohio : , : Ohio University Press, , 2015"]
[null,null,"ISBN",null,"0-8214-4518-9"]
[null,null,"Descrizione fisica",null,"1 online resource (465 p.)"]
[null,null,"Classificazione",null,"POL035010LAW000000"]
[null,null,"Disciplina",null,"342.6083"]
[null,null,"Soggetti",null,"Political refugees - Legal status, laws, etc - Africa"]
[{"$nulls":4},"Asylum, Right of - Africa"]
[{"$nulls":4},"Evidence, Expert"]
[null,null,"Lingua di pubblicazione",null,"Inglese"]
[null,null,"Formato",null,"Materiale a stampa"]
[null,null,null,"Livello bibliografico","Monografia"]
[null,null,null,"Note generali","Description based upon print version of record."]
[null,null,null,"Nota di bibliografia","Includes bibliographical references and index."]
[null,null,"Nota di contenuto",null,"Foreword; Preface and Acknowledgments; Introduction: Law, Expertise, and Protean Ideas about African Migrants; 1: Before Asylum and the Expert Witness; 2: Fraudulent Asylum Seeking as Transnational Mobilization[18]; 3: The Evolving Refugee Definition; 4: Expert Evidence in British Asylum Courts; 5: \"The Immigration People Know the Stories. There's One for Each Country\"; 6: Cultural Silences as an Excuse for Injustice; 7: Between Advocacy and Deception; 8: Allegations, Evidence, and Evaluation; 9: Sexual Minorities among African Asylum Claimants"]
[{"$nulls":4},"10: The \"Asylum-Advocacy Nexus\" in Anthropological PerspectiveAFTERWORD; About the Authors; Index"]
[null,null,null,"Sommario/riassunto","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"]