Judging Refugees : Narrative and Oral Testimony in Refugee Status Determination Hardback
by Anthea (University of Technology, Sydney) Vogl
Part of the Cambridge Asylum and Migration Studies series
Hardback
Description
To access state-based refugee protection regimes, refugee applicants must speak.
They must narrate the basis of their claims in person, often before a single decision-maker, repeatedly and at length.
In Judging Refugees Anthea Vogl investigates the black box of the refugee oral hearing and the politics of narrative within individualised processes for refugee status determination (RSD).
Drawing on a rich archive of administrative oral hearings in Australia and Canada, Vogl sets global trends of diminished and fast-tracked RSD against the critical role played by the discretionary spaces of refugee decision-making, and the gate-keeping functions of credibility assessment.
Judging Refugees explores the disciplining role of 'good refugee' stories within RSD and demonstrates that refugee applicants must be able to present their evidence in model Anglo-European narrative forms to be judged as authentic, credible and ultimately, to be granted access to protection.
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Out of stock
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:190 pages, Worked examples or Exercises
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:28/03/2024
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- ISBN:9781108831857
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Out of stock
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:190 pages, Worked examples or Exercises
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:28/03/2024
- Category:
- ISBN:9781108831857
