Identities on trial in the United States : asylum seekers from Asia / / ChorSwang Ngin ; foreword by David W. Haines

• Autore: Ngin ChorSwang
• Pubblicazione: Lanham, Maryland : , : Lexington Books, , 2018
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (267 pages)
• Disciplina: 342.73083
• Soggetto topico: Asylum, Right of - United States; Asians - Legal status, laws, etc - United States; Immigration enforcement - United States; Administrative courts - United States; Forensic anthropology - United States
• Persona (resp. second.): HainesDavid W.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Foreword / David W. Haines -- Introduction : the asylum seeker as the anthropological figure of the twenty-first century -- I don't need your bones to know your race -- How much Chinese should a Chinese be? -- Racialization and persecution -- A student protester from a Myanmar prison -- A Buddhist monk, a Catholic woman, a Christian pastor -- Did Jesus walk through a field of wheat or a field of grass? / co-authored with Joann Yeh -- An apostate from Indonesia : a convert from Islam to Catholicism -- Ethnographic details as evidence on rape and pregnancy -- Without evidence and without witness -- Dowry dispute : a case for the law firm of Seyfarth Shaw -- A filial daughter's love of Falun Gong exercises -- Her forced abortion was a frivolous claim -- Double tragedy : Mr. Song's humiliation or embarrassment? -- Article I courts in a world of uncertainties / co-authored with Joann Yeh -- An anthropologist in the courtroom / co-authored with Joann Yeh.
• Titolo autorizzato: Identities on trial in the United States
• ISBN: 1-4985-7474-2
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910813179903321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II