Adjudicating Refugee and Asylum Status: The Role of Witness, Expertise, and Testimony

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Benjamin N. Lawrance (Rochester Institute of Technology, New York) Galya Ruffer (Northwestern University, Illinois)

Adjudicating Refugee and Asylum Status

The Role of Witness, Expertise, and Testimony

Benjamin N. Lawrance (Rochester Institute of Technology, New York), Galya Ruffer (Northwestern University, Illinois)

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Cambridge University Press
23 June 2016

Asylum law

In this book, legal, biomedical, psychosocial, and social science scholars and practitioners offer the first comparative account of the increasing dependence on expertise in the asylum and refugee status determination process. This volume presents a comprehensive study of the relevance of experts, as mediators of culture, who are called upon to corroborate, substantiate credibility, and serve as translators in the face of confusing legal standards that require proof of new forms and reasons for persecution around the globe. The authors provide insights into the evidentiary burdens on asylum seekers and the expanding role of expertise in the forms of country-conditions reports, biomedical and psychiatric evaluations, and the emerging field of forensic linguistic analysis in response to emerging forms of persecution, such as gender-based or sexuality-based persecution.

Edited by: Benjamin N. Lawrance (Rochester Institute of Technology New York), Galya Ruffer (Northwestern University, Illinois)
Imprint: Cambridge University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 228mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 16mm
Weight: 410g
ISBN: 9781107688902
ISBN 10: 1107688906
Pages: 280
Publication Date: 23 June 2016
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Benjamin N. Lawrance is the Hon. Barber B. Conable, Jr Endowed Chair in International Studies of the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at the Rochester Institute of Technology. He has authored eight books, most recently Amistad's Orphans (2014) and Trafficking in Slavery's Wake (2012). Lawrance is a legal consultant and has served as an expert witness for more than two hundred and fifty West African asylum claims in fifteen countries. His research is situated at the dynamic interdisciplinary intersection of history, anthropology, and sociology and is focused on international mobilities, including migration, smuggling, trafficking, forced marriage, and refugee movements. Galya Ruffer is Director of International Studies and the founding director of the Center for Forced Migration Studies housed at the Buffett Center for International and Comparative Studies at Northwestern University, Illinois. Her work centers on refugee rights and protection, regional understandings of the root causes of conflict and refugee crises, and the rule of law and the process of international justice, with a particular focus on the Great Lakes region of Africa. She serves on the executive committee for the International Association for the Study of Forced Migration and is a vice chair of the American Bar Association International Refugee Law Committee. Aside from her academic work, she has worked as an immigration attorney representing political asylum claimants both as a solo practitioner and as a pro bono attorney.

Reviews for Adjudicating Refugee and Asylum Status: The Role of Witness, Expertise, and Testimony

'Adjudicating Refugee and Asylum Status is an excellent collection that explores how, in industrialized countries, the personal narratives of asylum seekers are scrutinized and in some instances replaced by an expanding array of expertise deployed to establish the credibility of asylum claims ... The strength of this important collection lies in the range of professional perspectives that it reflects - often candid, self-critical, and modest in their struggles to establish truth, credibility, and state of mind. For the most part, this is not a story of heroes and villains, but one of collective dedication to an imperfect system and frustration at the limits of ensuring fair asylum procedures and outcomes.' Graeme Rogers, Refuge