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 |
Autore | Berger Iris |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Ohio University Press, 2015 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (465 p.) |
Disciplina | 342.6083 |
Soggetto topico |
Political refugees - Legal status, laws, etc - Africa
Asylum, Right of - Africa Evidence, Expert |
Soggetto non controllato |
Political Science
human rights law African studies refugee rights |
ISBN | 0-8214-4518-9 |
Classificazione | POL035010LAW000000 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
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 |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910316454203321 |
Berger Iris | ||
Ohio University Press, 2015 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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The Palgrave handbook of Islam in Africa / / Fallou Ngom, Mustapha H. Kurfi, Toyin Falola, editors |
Edizione | [1st ed. 2020.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cham, Switzerland : , : Palgrave Macmillan, , [2020] |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (XXVIII, 774 p. 67 illus., 41 illus. in color.) |
Disciplina | 297.096 |
Soggetto topico | Islam - Africa |
ISBN | 3-030-45759-1 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Islam in Sub-Saharan Africa, 800-1900 -- Chapter 3: Religious Leadership and Mobility: Revisiting the Legacy of Al-Ḥājj Salim Suwari -- Chapter 4: The Islamic Intellectual Traditions of Sudanic Africa, with Analysis of a Fifteenth- Century Timbuktu Manuscript -- Chapter 5: Interpretations of Jihād in Africa: A Historical Overview -- Chapter 6: Between Jihād and History: Re-conceptualizing the Islamic Revolutions of West Africa -- Chapter 7: Islam and Emancipation: The Fuladu Fulani in the Kaabu Empire -- Chapter 8: Geography, Islam, and Africa -- Chapter 9: Islam in West Africa: Diffusion and Growth -- Chapter 10: Southern Africa’s Muslim Communities: Selected Profiles -- Chapter 11: Sharīʿa Law in Muslim Africa -- Chapter 12: Female Muslim Scholars in Africa -- Chapter 13: Christianity and Islam in Africa -- Chapter 14: Islam and West African Religions -- Chapter 15: Islamic Philosophy in Africa -- Chapter 16: Islamic Architecture in Pre-colonial Africa -- Chapter 17: Islamic Calligraphy, Abstraction and Magic Talismans in Northern Nigeria -- Chapter 18: Islam in Europhone African Literature -- Chapter 19: Islam and Music in Africa -- Chapter 20: Muslims and Traditional Dance Performance in Dagboŋ, Northern Ghana -- Chapter 21: Black Africans in Arabic Sources: A Critical Assessment of Method and Rhetoric -- Chapter 22: African Islamic Influences in Selected African American Literary Writings -- Chapter 23: Competing and Complementary Writing Systems in the Horn of Africa -- Chapter 24: Manuscript Libraries of Sub-Saharan Muslim Africa -- Chapter 25: Exploring and Preserving the Islamic Manuscript Heritage of Sub-Saharan Africa -- Chapter 26: Islam and Activism: The Marabout and the Trade Union -- Chapter 27: Islam and Politics in West Africa: Intricacies of the Relationship as seen through Mali and Senegal -- Chapter 28: Private Islamic Education in Africa -- Chapter 29: Islam and Political Renaissance in Contemporary Africa -- Chapter 30: Islam and Globalization in Africa -- Chapter 31: Islam and the Environment in African Context -- Chapter 32: Researching Digital Media and Islam in Africa: Recommending a Framework -- Chapter 33: Islam and the Future of Africa: Perceptions, Stereotypes, and the Clash of Philosophies. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910420922903321 |
Cham, Switzerland : , : Palgrave Macmillan, , [2020] | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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