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



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Autore: Ngin ChorSwang Visualizza persona
Titolo: Identities on trial in the United States : asylum seekers from Asia / / ChorSwang Ngin ; foreword by David W. Haines Visualizza cluster
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  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-4985-7474-2
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910793032803321
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