African Asylum at a Crossroads: Activism, Expert Testimony, and Refugee Rights
Editat de Iris Berger, Tricia Redeker Hepner, Benjamin N. Lawrance, Joanna T. Tague, Meredith Terrettaen Limba Engleză Hardback – 14 mai 2015
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 increasingly draw upon such testimony in their deliberations, expertise in matters of asylum and refugee status is emerging as an academic area with its own standards, protocols, and guidelines. This deeply thoughtful book explores these developments and their effects on both asylum seekers and the experts whose influence may determine their fate.
Contributors: Iris Berger, Carol Bohmer, John Campbell, Katherine Luongo, E. Ann McDougall, Karen Musalo, Tricia Redeker Hepner, Amy Shuman, Joanna T. Tague, Meredith Terretta, and Charlotte Walker-Said.
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 increasingly draw upon such testimony in their deliberations, expertise in matters of asylum and refugee status is emerging as an academic area with its own standards, protocols, and guidelines. This deeply thoughtful book explores these developments and their effects on both asylum seekers and the experts whose influence may determine their fate.
Contributors: Iris Berger, Carol Bohmer, John Campbell, Katherine Luongo, E. Ann McDougall, Karen Musalo, Tricia Redeker Hepner, Amy Shuman, Joanna T. Tague, Meredith Terretta, and Charlotte Walker-Said.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780821421383
ISBN-10: 0821421387
Pagini: 280
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.48 kg
Editura: Ohio University Press
Colecția Ohio University Press
ISBN-10: 0821421387
Pagini: 280
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.48 kg
Editura: Ohio University Press
Colecția Ohio University Press
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Recenzii
“This is a first-rate collection of original essays focused on asylum jurisprudence involving African refugees…. These essays are provocative, well documented, and eloquent. The authors examine a subject that has been largely overlooked: the extraordinarily significant role of experts in legal processes…. The impressive contributors are anthropologists, historians, and legal scholars who offer provocative remarks about cases including many in which they served as expert witnesses.”—Alison Dundes Renteln, professor of political science and anthropology at the School of Policy, Planning, and Development and Law, University of Southern California
Notă biografică
Iris Berger, is Vincent O’Leary Professor of History at the University at Albany, State University of New York. She is the author of South Africa in World History.
Tricia Redeker Hepner is associate professor of anthropology and director of the Disasters, Displacement, and Human Rights Program at the University of Tennessee. She is the author of Soldiers, Martyrs, Traitors, and Exiles: Political Conflict in Eritrea and the Diaspora.
Benjamin N. Lawrance is an author and editor of eleven books, and editor in chief of the African Studies Review. He is professor of History at the University of Arizona.
Joanna T. Tague is assistant professor of African history at Denison University in Granville, Ohio.
Meredith Terretta is an associate professor of history at the University of Ottawa and the author of Petitioning for Our Rights, Fighting for Our Nation: The History of the Democratic Union of Cameroonian Women, 1949–1960.
Tricia Redeker Hepner is associate professor of anthropology and director of the Disasters, Displacement, and Human Rights Program at the University of Tennessee. She is the author of Soldiers, Martyrs, Traitors, and Exiles: Political Conflict in Eritrea and the Diaspora.
Benjamin N. Lawrance is an author and editor of eleven books, and editor in chief of the African Studies Review. He is professor of History at the University of Arizona.
Joanna T. Tague is assistant professor of African history at Denison University in Granville, Ohio.
Meredith Terretta is an associate professor of history at the University of Ottawa and the author of Petitioning for Our Rights, Fighting for Our Nation: The History of the Democratic Union of Cameroonian Women, 1949–1960.
Cuprins
- Foreword.
Penelope Andrews - Preface and Acknowledgments
- Introduction. Law, Expertise, and Protean Ideas about African Migrants
Benjamin N. Lawrance, Iris Berger, Tricia Redeker Hepner, Joanna T. Tague, and Meredith Terretta - 1. Before Asylum and the Expert Witness
Mozambican Refugee Settlement and Rural Development in Southern Tanzania, 1964–75
Joanna T. Tague - 2. Fraudulent Asylum Seeking as Transnational Mobilization
The Case of Cameroon
Meredith Terretta - 3. The Evolving Refugee Definition
How Shifting Elements of Eligibility Affect the Nature and Focus of Expert Testimony in Asylum Proceedings
Karen Musalo - 4. Expert Evidence in British Asylum Courts
The Judicial Assessment of Evidence on Ethnic Discrimination and Statelessness in Ethiopia
John Campbell - 5. “The Immigration People Know the Stories. There’s One for Each Country”
The Case of Mauritania
E . Ann McDougall - 6. Cultural Silences as an Excuse for Injustice
The Problems of Documentary Proof
Carol Bohmer and Amy Shuman - 7. Between Advocacy and Deception
Crafting an African Asylum Narrative
Iris Berger - 8. Allegations, Evidence, and Evaluation
Asylum Seeking in a World of Witchcraft
Katherine Luongo - 9. Sexual Minorities among African Asylum Claimants
Human Rights Regimes, Bureaucratic Knowledge, and the Era of Sexual Rights Diplomacy
Charlotte Walker-Said - 10. The “Asylum-Advocacy Nexus” in Anthropological Perspective
Agency, Activism, and the Construction of Eritrean Political Identities
Tricia Redeker Hepner - Afterword
Fallou Ngom - About the Authors
- Index
Descriere
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.