Judging refugees: narrative and oral testimony in refugee status determination

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 polit...

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Main Author: Vogl, Anthea (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY Cambridge University Press 2024
Series:Cambridge asylum and migration studies
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Online Access:DE-12
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Summary: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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Law, literature, and narrative in the RSD oral hearings -- How did we get here? a history of the oral hearing in Australia and Canada -- The stock narrative of becoming refugee -- Narrative contest as structuring the oral hearing -- 'I'll just stop you here' : fragmentation of refuggees' oral testimony -- Beyond the demand for narrative : genres of refugee testimony
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (xiii, 174 Seiten)
ISBN:9781108912402
DOI:10.1017/9781108912402

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