Book contents
- Adjudicating Refugee and Asylum Status
- Adjudicating Refugee and Asylum Status
- Copyright page
- Contents
- About the Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Foreword
- Introduction: Witness to the Persecution? Expertise, Testimony, and Consistency in Asylum Adjudication
- Part I Sociocultural Inconsistency and the Contours of Expertise
- 1 Reconstructing Babel: Bridging Cultural Dissonance between Asylum Seekers and Adjudicators
- 2 Recovering the Sociological Identity of Asylum Seekers: Language Analysis for Determining National Origin in the European Union
- 3 Research and Testimony in the “Rape Capital of the World”: Experts and Evidence in Congolese Asylum Claims
- 4 Beyond Expert Witnessing: Interdisciplinary Practice in Representing Rape Survivors in Asylum Cases
- 5 Anthropological Evidence and Country of Origin Information in British Asylum Courts1
- Part II Practices and Technologies for Medico-Psycho Expertise
- Afterword
- Index
5 - Anthropological Evidence and Country of Origin Information in British Asylum Courts1
from Part I - Sociocultural Inconsistency and the Contours of Expertise
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 18 December 2014
- Adjudicating Refugee and Asylum Status
- Adjudicating Refugee and Asylum Status
- Copyright page
- Contents
- About the Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Foreword
- Introduction: Witness to the Persecution? Expertise, Testimony, and Consistency in Asylum Adjudication
- Part I Sociocultural Inconsistency and the Contours of Expertise
- 1 Reconstructing Babel: Bridging Cultural Dissonance between Asylum Seekers and Adjudicators
- 2 Recovering the Sociological Identity of Asylum Seekers: Language Analysis for Determining National Origin in the European Union
- 3 Research and Testimony in the “Rape Capital of the World”: Experts and Evidence in Congolese Asylum Claims
- 4 Beyond Expert Witnessing: Interdisciplinary Practice in Representing Rape Survivors in Asylum Cases
- 5 Anthropological Evidence and Country of Origin Information in British Asylum Courts1
- Part II Practices and Technologies for Medico-Psycho Expertise
- Afterword
- Index
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- Adjudicating Refugee and Asylum StatusThe Role of Witness, Expertise, and Testimony, pp. 122 - 144Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2015
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